John H Palmieri wrote:
> On Mar 25, 10:05 am, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> More seriously, I think that for some people the distinction between Z
>> and boldface Z might be hard to pick out (visually, that is). \mathbb
>> {Z} is unambiguous, has a nice chalkboard equivalent, and so on. I
>> know at least that trying to get anyone to tell the difference between
>> v and bold v in any vector setting - whether in a book or on the
>> chalkboard - is nightmarish, which is why putting those little arrows
>> over vectors is so helpful. Presumably the same people who need the
>> large-print version of things would also find \mathbb helpful.
>>
>> So even though it looks nice in a book, there might be something to be
>> said for standardizing a notation that allows one to separately talk
>> about some other thing Z (for instance, a variable for a form) if that
>> is helpful. Not that that has anything to do with Sage.
>
> Somewhat seriously, I have another argument against using blackboard
> bold fonts: I can't get them to work with jsMath. I think I have all
> of the appropriate fonts installed, but when I try to view something
> typeset in blackboard bold, I get the message "Unknown control
> sequence '\msbm'." Does anyone have any advice?
>
What browser/OS are you using?
Davide (author of jsmath, and who has also posted to sage lists before)
would probably be interested in any problems that crop up.
Jason
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