I don't understand this

Herbert Voss Herbert.Voss at fu-berlin.de
Mon Jun 12 11:59:08 UTC 2023



Am 12.06.23 um 13:47 schrieb Scott Kostyshak:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 02:28:50PM +0300, Udicoudco wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 11:04 AM Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at lyx.org> wrote:
>>>> On 2023-06-10 21:49, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>>>>> It's because the 'blackboard' font is quite limited (to ASCII caps, I
>>>>> think). If you type characters not present in that font, you get weird
>>>>> results.
>>>>>
>> With modern math fonts (open type) the range of 'blackboard'
>> characters is wider,
>> and it includes small latin letters, and arabic numerals as well.
>>
>>> In this case, LyX creates the corresponding LaTeX code "$\mathbb{0}$", which is valid LaTeX. It is true that the output is counter-intuitive. I'm not convinced we should do anything here.
>> With unicode-math, "$\mathbb{0}$" should be rendered as "𝟘" (U+1D7D8),


with unicode-math it should be $\Bbbzero$

Herbert

>> but it seems that  LyX is not aware of that. Attached is an example.
>> Should I open
>> a ticket? I don't currently have access to my Linux machine, and can't
>> test it with master.
> Interesting, that's good to know. I don't have Times New Roman on my system so I can't test.
>
> Scott
>



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