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        texlive-texmf-fonts-bbm - bbm fonts
        
          
            | Website: | http://www.tug.org/texlive/ | 
          
            | License: | GPLv2 and GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and LPPL and MIT and Public Domain and Modified BSD and see "LICENSE" | 
        
        
        - Description:
- 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. 
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