The problem is that you can use the package bbold (usepackake{}) which provides different different characters. Then the displayed characters are different from the printed one (with pdflatex).
It does not seem very logical. =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France =========================================================================== > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at 4:38 PM > From: "David L. Johnson" <d...@lehigh.edu> > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Subject: Re: bbold > > On 01/17/2018 07:46 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Lyx offers mathbb > > But il looks like that it does not belong to the package > > bbold > > seems this package is not installed. > > > > My problem is that the package bbold gives me the symbol that I want (like > > \mathbb{1}) > > while, that I get by default with lyx is a bizarre symbol. > The thing to note is that \mathbb{} is only for capital letters. You do > get strange symbols if you use it on lower-case letters. \mathbb{}, > usually called "blackboard bold" gives a font similar to what we usually > use on a chalkboard to indicate a bold letter, with doubled line > segments. Try \mathbb{R} for example. > > -- > > David L. Johnson > Department of Mathematics > Lehigh University > >