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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/bbm/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/bbm/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b297f0badb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/bbm/README @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +Copyright 1993 Gilles F. Robert. +You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this file. +This statement added 2008/11/14 by Clea F. Rees on the basis of the email exchange archived at http://lists.debian.org/debian-tex-maint/2008/05/msg00040.html. + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +A mathematician often needs special symbols to designate sets such as the +integers, the reals etc.. + +For the time being, the only fonts providing these special symbols have been: + - the AMS fonts msbm (older version msym), which are intended for use with +Times and aren't truly what a mathematician expects (the stress is on both +stems instead of being on only the left one). + - Alan Jeffrey's bbold fonts, which are sans-serif ones, with (almost) no +possibility of design variations for, say, a bold variant. +That was all, and in particular nothing for use with Computer Modern. + +I was already working at that time on the project of changing the codes of +romanu.mf, romanl.mf and other files to add a 'Blackboard' variant to +Computer Modern. + + YOU HAVE IT ALL THERE !!! + +The whole package contains five 'main' files: + - blbbase.mf (the 'base') contains the supplementary definitions needed +for double stems etc.. + - blbord.mf (the 'driver') is fairly simple and only makes the necessary +calls. + - blbordu.mf (based on romanu.mf): programs for uppercase letters. + - blbordl.mf (based on romanl.mf): programs for lowercase letters. + - blbordsp.mf (based on romand.mf and punct.mf): programs for the digits~1 +and~2 and for parentheses and brackets. + +There is also a whole lot of parameter files that are (almost) the same as +those provided by DEK. + +For most of them, the only differences are +- change 'cmbase' for 'blbbase' on line~2 +- change 'generate roman' for 'generate blbord' on last line +- add two extra parameters (interspace# and cap_interspace#). + +A LaTeX(2e) package written by Torsten Hilbrich for using these fonts is also +available nearby, exactly in ctan/macros/latex/contrib/supported/bbm/ + +I sincerely hope you'll enjoy using these fonts; if you get into problems +while using them, I should be reachable at + + _ _ Gilles F. ROBERT +| Unit\'e de Math\'ematiques Pures et Appliqu\'ees +| _ _ _ \'Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure +| | | 46, All\'ee d'Italie +|_ _|_ _| 69364 Lyon Cedex (FRANCE) + | \ + | \ e-mail : gfrobert@umpa.ens-lyon.fr + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% |