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Blackboard bold variants for Greek letters


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It is common (or it used to be) to use a blackboard-bold variant of mu to denote roots of unity in some mathematical papers. However, despite searching (several times, periodically over several years) I have never been able to locate any package or technique that makes this possible, other than using Metafont or possibly hunting through the font definitions to see if it is something I can create a variant of (along the lines of the suggestions in Section 8 of the Comprehensive LaTeX symbol list).



Thus far, I haven't been sufficiently motivated to learn how to do any of this (although it probably would have resulted in a net time savings), and I feel like I cannot be the only person who would have tried. Is anyone aware of an existing way to produce this character?










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    Unicode contains only four double-struck Greek letters: ℽℼℾℿ (γπΓΠ), and since the Unicode repertoire is quite comprehensive (and much larger than the Comprehensive Symbols List), I'd conjecture that this character is very uncommon. Could you give an example where this character is used?

    – Philipp
    Sep 25 '10 at 14:54











  • So far as I know, the only users of this symbol are probably certain specific typies of mathematician, so I would agree that it is very uncommon. It appears on this page in J. S. Milne's "Etale cohomology": books.google.com/…

    – Tyler Lawson
    Sep 25 '10 at 22:51








  • 5





    Barbara Beeton at the Ams is still collecting math symbols that are not in Unicode yet, so could you send her this question as well along with the example? (bnb at ams dot org)

    – Taco Hoekwater
    Sep 26 '10 at 7:25








  • 1





    @Taco: I agree. AFAIK the Unicode consortium holds the position that every character that is in use should be encoded. If someone can prove that mathematicians do use the character in question, there is a high chance that it will be added to the Unicode repertoire.

    – Philipp
    Sep 26 '10 at 11:09











  • @coarsemodule: Thanks for the example. The character in question looks more like a superposition of two µ's than a double-struck µ—compare the ℤ directly in front.

    – Philipp
    Sep 26 '10 at 11:13
















24















It is common (or it used to be) to use a blackboard-bold variant of mu to denote roots of unity in some mathematical papers. However, despite searching (several times, periodically over several years) I have never been able to locate any package or technique that makes this possible, other than using Metafont or possibly hunting through the font definitions to see if it is something I can create a variant of (along the lines of the suggestions in Section 8 of the Comprehensive LaTeX symbol list).



Thus far, I haven't been sufficiently motivated to learn how to do any of this (although it probably would have resulted in a net time savings), and I feel like I cannot be the only person who would have tried. Is anyone aware of an existing way to produce this character?










share|improve this question




















  • 2





    Unicode contains only four double-struck Greek letters: ℽℼℾℿ (γπΓΠ), and since the Unicode repertoire is quite comprehensive (and much larger than the Comprehensive Symbols List), I'd conjecture that this character is very uncommon. Could you give an example where this character is used?

    – Philipp
    Sep 25 '10 at 14:54











  • So far as I know, the only users of this symbol are probably certain specific typies of mathematician, so I would agree that it is very uncommon. It appears on this page in J. S. Milne's "Etale cohomology": books.google.com/…

    – Tyler Lawson
    Sep 25 '10 at 22:51








  • 5





    Barbara Beeton at the Ams is still collecting math symbols that are not in Unicode yet, so could you send her this question as well along with the example? (bnb at ams dot org)

    – Taco Hoekwater
    Sep 26 '10 at 7:25








  • 1





    @Taco: I agree. AFAIK the Unicode consortium holds the position that every character that is in use should be encoded. If someone can prove that mathematicians do use the character in question, there is a high chance that it will be added to the Unicode repertoire.

    – Philipp
    Sep 26 '10 at 11:09











  • @coarsemodule: Thanks for the example. The character in question looks more like a superposition of two µ's than a double-struck µ—compare the ℤ directly in front.

    – Philipp
    Sep 26 '10 at 11:13














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It is common (or it used to be) to use a blackboard-bold variant of mu to denote roots of unity in some mathematical papers. However, despite searching (several times, periodically over several years) I have never been able to locate any package or technique that makes this possible, other than using Metafont or possibly hunting through the font definitions to see if it is something I can create a variant of (along the lines of the suggestions in Section 8 of the Comprehensive LaTeX symbol list).



Thus far, I haven't been sufficiently motivated to learn how to do any of this (although it probably would have resulted in a net time savings), and I feel like I cannot be the only person who would have tried. Is anyone aware of an existing way to produce this character?










share|improve this question
















It is common (or it used to be) to use a blackboard-bold variant of mu to denote roots of unity in some mathematical papers. However, despite searching (several times, periodically over several years) I have never been able to locate any package or technique that makes this possible, other than using Metafont or possibly hunting through the font definitions to see if it is something I can create a variant of (along the lines of the suggestions in Section 8 of the Comprehensive LaTeX symbol list).



Thus far, I haven't been sufficiently motivated to learn how to do any of this (although it probably would have resulted in a net time savings), and I feel like I cannot be the only person who would have tried. Is anyone aware of an existing way to produce this character?







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  • 2





    Unicode contains only four double-struck Greek letters: ℽℼℾℿ (γπΓΠ), and since the Unicode repertoire is quite comprehensive (and much larger than the Comprehensive Symbols List), I'd conjecture that this character is very uncommon. Could you give an example where this character is used?

    – Philipp
    Sep 25 '10 at 14:54











  • So far as I know, the only users of this symbol are probably certain specific typies of mathematician, so I would agree that it is very uncommon. It appears on this page in J. S. Milne's "Etale cohomology": books.google.com/…

    – Tyler Lawson
    Sep 25 '10 at 22:51








  • 5





    Barbara Beeton at the Ams is still collecting math symbols that are not in Unicode yet, so could you send her this question as well along with the example? (bnb at ams dot org)

    – Taco Hoekwater
    Sep 26 '10 at 7:25








  • 1





    @Taco: I agree. AFAIK the Unicode consortium holds the position that every character that is in use should be encoded. If someone can prove that mathematicians do use the character in question, there is a high chance that it will be added to the Unicode repertoire.

    – Philipp
    Sep 26 '10 at 11:09











  • @coarsemodule: Thanks for the example. The character in question looks more like a superposition of two µ's than a double-struck µ—compare the ℤ directly in front.

    – Philipp
    Sep 26 '10 at 11:13














  • 2





    Unicode contains only four double-struck Greek letters: ℽℼℾℿ (γπΓΠ), and since the Unicode repertoire is quite comprehensive (and much larger than the Comprehensive Symbols List), I'd conjecture that this character is very uncommon. Could you give an example where this character is used?

    – Philipp
    Sep 25 '10 at 14:54











  • So far as I know, the only users of this symbol are probably certain specific typies of mathematician, so I would agree that it is very uncommon. It appears on this page in J. S. Milne's "Etale cohomology": books.google.com/…

    – Tyler Lawson
    Sep 25 '10 at 22:51








  • 5





    Barbara Beeton at the Ams is still collecting math symbols that are not in Unicode yet, so could you send her this question as well along with the example? (bnb at ams dot org)

    – Taco Hoekwater
    Sep 26 '10 at 7:25








  • 1





    @Taco: I agree. AFAIK the Unicode consortium holds the position that every character that is in use should be encoded. If someone can prove that mathematicians do use the character in question, there is a high chance that it will be added to the Unicode repertoire.

    – Philipp
    Sep 26 '10 at 11:09











  • @coarsemodule: Thanks for the example. The character in question looks more like a superposition of two µ's than a double-struck µ—compare the ℤ directly in front.

    – Philipp
    Sep 26 '10 at 11:13








2




2





Unicode contains only four double-struck Greek letters: ℽℼℾℿ (γπΓΠ), and since the Unicode repertoire is quite comprehensive (and much larger than the Comprehensive Symbols List), I'd conjecture that this character is very uncommon. Could you give an example where this character is used?

– Philipp
Sep 25 '10 at 14:54





Unicode contains only four double-struck Greek letters: ℽℼℾℿ (γπΓΠ), and since the Unicode repertoire is quite comprehensive (and much larger than the Comprehensive Symbols List), I'd conjecture that this character is very uncommon. Could you give an example where this character is used?

– Philipp
Sep 25 '10 at 14:54













So far as I know, the only users of this symbol are probably certain specific typies of mathematician, so I would agree that it is very uncommon. It appears on this page in J. S. Milne's "Etale cohomology": books.google.com/…

– Tyler Lawson
Sep 25 '10 at 22:51







So far as I know, the only users of this symbol are probably certain specific typies of mathematician, so I would agree that it is very uncommon. It appears on this page in J. S. Milne's "Etale cohomology": books.google.com/…

– Tyler Lawson
Sep 25 '10 at 22:51






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5





Barbara Beeton at the Ams is still collecting math symbols that are not in Unicode yet, so could you send her this question as well along with the example? (bnb at ams dot org)

– Taco Hoekwater
Sep 26 '10 at 7:25







Barbara Beeton at the Ams is still collecting math symbols that are not in Unicode yet, so could you send her this question as well along with the example? (bnb at ams dot org)

– Taco Hoekwater
Sep 26 '10 at 7:25






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@Taco: I agree. AFAIK the Unicode consortium holds the position that every character that is in use should be encoded. If someone can prove that mathematicians do use the character in question, there is a high chance that it will be added to the Unicode repertoire.

– Philipp
Sep 26 '10 at 11:09





@Taco: I agree. AFAIK the Unicode consortium holds the position that every character that is in use should be encoded. If someone can prove that mathematicians do use the character in question, there is a high chance that it will be added to the Unicode repertoire.

– Philipp
Sep 26 '10 at 11:09













@coarsemodule: Thanks for the example. The character in question looks more like a superposition of two µ's than a double-struck µ—compare the ℤ directly in front.

– Philipp
Sep 26 '10 at 11:13





@coarsemodule: Thanks for the example. The character in question looks more like a superposition of two µ's than a double-struck µ—compare the ℤ directly in front.

– Philipp
Sep 26 '10 at 11:13










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The mbboard package provides blackboard bold Greek letters, and the letter you want is bbmu. However, I don't know if you like how the symbol looks. (I don't like it, actually.)



The mathbbol package with the bbgreekl option also provides (a possibly nicer version of) bbmu: Use usepackage[bbgreekl]{mathbbol} in the preamble. The disadvantage is that the package also redefines mathbb; see this post for possiblities to avoid this.



Note that lowercase epsilon is typeset with bbespilon (sic).



Edit: I just realised that the mbboard package redefines mathbb, too. If you don't like this, then an easy solution is to load the amssymb package after the mbboard package. This gives you the "usual" blackboard bold letters, and you can still use bbmu and friends.






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  • Thanks for this. I looked at both options, and they do provide the functionality advertised. (I actually prefer the version provided by the mbboard package, as the mathbbol version is quite blocky along its edge.) Perhaps a version closer to the standard tex mu symbol would be ideal, but these are certainly workable.

    – Tyler Lawson
    Sep 26 '10 at 14:46



















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Another font set that can provide this is MathTime Professional II fonts (mtpro2) from PCTeX. The web site mentions some journals that use these fonts.



The fonts are non-free and, to achieve what is wanted here are, chargeable (the non-free but no-cost 'lite' version does not include the 'blackboard bold italic' and 'holey bold italic' fonts which the two samples below use, using a simple redefinition of mathbb). The outputs are just .pngs of screenprints so don't use these to judge the resolution of the original fonts.



documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage[mtpbbi]{mtpro2}
begin{document}
$mathbb{mu} , mathbb{M}$ % assuming 'Mu' = 'M'
end{document}




documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage[mtpbbi]{mtpro2}
begin{document}
$mathbb{mu} , mathbb{M}$
end{document}







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    I also spent a lot of time on the issue and found nothing satisfactory. So I made up my own blackboard bold mu and alpha:



    documentclass{minimal}
    usepackage{amssymb}
    newcommand{Balpha}{mbox{$hspace{0.12em}shortmidhspace{-0.62em}alpha$}}
    usepackage{xcolor}
    usepackage{graphicx}
    newcommand{Bmu}{mbox{$raisebox{-0.59ex}
    {$l$}hspace{-0.18em}muhspace{-0.88em}raisebox{-0.98ex}{scalebox{2}
    {$color{white}.$}}hspace{-0.416em}raisebox{+0.88ex}
    {$color{white}.$}hspace{0.46em}$}{}}
    begin{document}
    $BalphaquadBmu$
    end{document}


    This produces



    blackboard bold alpha and mu
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    • +1 from new, in particular for the Bmu. You could improve the Balpha by using a rule instead of the shortmid.

      – Hendrik Vogt
      May 24 '13 at 6:58



















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    Just for kicks, you could kludge together your own version which is similar to the symbol in the book you linked in the comments



    documentclass{minimal}
    usepackage{amsmath}
    usepackage{xcolor}
    usepackage{graphicx}
    newcommand{dmu}{$mu$hspace{-3.2pt}$mu$hspace{-5.7pt}raisebox{-3.06pt}{scalebox{1.6}{$color{white}cdot$}}}
    begin{document}
    dmu
    end{document}


    Which produces,



    doublemu






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    • This is probably the easiest solution. I badly needed a blackboard tau, so I came up with newcommand{bbtau}{tau mspace{-7.5mu} tau mspace{-8.7mu} rule{0.25ex}{.5pt} mspace{8mu} mspace{-12.7mu}raisebox{0.68ex}{rule{0.3ex}{.3pt}} mspace{9.12mu}}

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    The mbboard package provides blackboard bold Greek letters, and the letter you want is bbmu. However, I don't know if you like how the symbol looks. (I don't like it, actually.)



    The mathbbol package with the bbgreekl option also provides (a possibly nicer version of) bbmu: Use usepackage[bbgreekl]{mathbbol} in the preamble. The disadvantage is that the package also redefines mathbb; see this post for possiblities to avoid this.



    Note that lowercase epsilon is typeset with bbespilon (sic).



    Edit: I just realised that the mbboard package redefines mathbb, too. If you don't like this, then an easy solution is to load the amssymb package after the mbboard package. This gives you the "usual" blackboard bold letters, and you can still use bbmu and friends.






    share|improve this answer


























    • Thanks for this. I looked at both options, and they do provide the functionality advertised. (I actually prefer the version provided by the mbboard package, as the mathbbol version is quite blocky along its edge.) Perhaps a version closer to the standard tex mu symbol would be ideal, but these are certainly workable.

      – Tyler Lawson
      Sep 26 '10 at 14:46
















    19














    The mbboard package provides blackboard bold Greek letters, and the letter you want is bbmu. However, I don't know if you like how the symbol looks. (I don't like it, actually.)



    The mathbbol package with the bbgreekl option also provides (a possibly nicer version of) bbmu: Use usepackage[bbgreekl]{mathbbol} in the preamble. The disadvantage is that the package also redefines mathbb; see this post for possiblities to avoid this.



    Note that lowercase epsilon is typeset with bbespilon (sic).



    Edit: I just realised that the mbboard package redefines mathbb, too. If you don't like this, then an easy solution is to load the amssymb package after the mbboard package. This gives you the "usual" blackboard bold letters, and you can still use bbmu and friends.






    share|improve this answer


























    • Thanks for this. I looked at both options, and they do provide the functionality advertised. (I actually prefer the version provided by the mbboard package, as the mathbbol version is quite blocky along its edge.) Perhaps a version closer to the standard tex mu symbol would be ideal, but these are certainly workable.

      – Tyler Lawson
      Sep 26 '10 at 14:46














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    The mbboard package provides blackboard bold Greek letters, and the letter you want is bbmu. However, I don't know if you like how the symbol looks. (I don't like it, actually.)



    The mathbbol package with the bbgreekl option also provides (a possibly nicer version of) bbmu: Use usepackage[bbgreekl]{mathbbol} in the preamble. The disadvantage is that the package also redefines mathbb; see this post for possiblities to avoid this.



    Note that lowercase epsilon is typeset with bbespilon (sic).



    Edit: I just realised that the mbboard package redefines mathbb, too. If you don't like this, then an easy solution is to load the amssymb package after the mbboard package. This gives you the "usual" blackboard bold letters, and you can still use bbmu and friends.






    share|improve this answer















    The mbboard package provides blackboard bold Greek letters, and the letter you want is bbmu. However, I don't know if you like how the symbol looks. (I don't like it, actually.)



    The mathbbol package with the bbgreekl option also provides (a possibly nicer version of) bbmu: Use usepackage[bbgreekl]{mathbbol} in the preamble. The disadvantage is that the package also redefines mathbb; see this post for possiblities to avoid this.



    Note that lowercase epsilon is typeset with bbespilon (sic).



    Edit: I just realised that the mbboard package redefines mathbb, too. If you don't like this, then an easy solution is to load the amssymb package after the mbboard package. This gives you the "usual" blackboard bold letters, and you can still use bbmu and friends.







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    • Thanks for this. I looked at both options, and they do provide the functionality advertised. (I actually prefer the version provided by the mbboard package, as the mathbbol version is quite blocky along its edge.) Perhaps a version closer to the standard tex mu symbol would be ideal, but these are certainly workable.

      – Tyler Lawson
      Sep 26 '10 at 14:46



















    • Thanks for this. I looked at both options, and they do provide the functionality advertised. (I actually prefer the version provided by the mbboard package, as the mathbbol version is quite blocky along its edge.) Perhaps a version closer to the standard tex mu symbol would be ideal, but these are certainly workable.

      – Tyler Lawson
      Sep 26 '10 at 14:46

















    Thanks for this. I looked at both options, and they do provide the functionality advertised. (I actually prefer the version provided by the mbboard package, as the mathbbol version is quite blocky along its edge.) Perhaps a version closer to the standard tex mu symbol would be ideal, but these are certainly workable.

    – Tyler Lawson
    Sep 26 '10 at 14:46





    Thanks for this. I looked at both options, and they do provide the functionality advertised. (I actually prefer the version provided by the mbboard package, as the mathbbol version is quite blocky along its edge.) Perhaps a version closer to the standard tex mu symbol would be ideal, but these are certainly workable.

    – Tyler Lawson
    Sep 26 '10 at 14:46











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    Another font set that can provide this is MathTime Professional II fonts (mtpro2) from PCTeX. The web site mentions some journals that use these fonts.



    The fonts are non-free and, to achieve what is wanted here are, chargeable (the non-free but no-cost 'lite' version does not include the 'blackboard bold italic' and 'holey bold italic' fonts which the two samples below use, using a simple redefinition of mathbb). The outputs are just .pngs of screenprints so don't use these to judge the resolution of the original fonts.



    documentclass[12pt]{article}
    usepackage[mtpbbi]{mtpro2}
    begin{document}
    $mathbb{mu} , mathbb{M}$ % assuming 'Mu' = 'M'
    end{document}




    documentclass[12pt]{article}
    usepackage[mtpbbi]{mtpro2}
    begin{document}
    $mathbb{mu} , mathbb{M}$
    end{document}







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      10














      Another font set that can provide this is MathTime Professional II fonts (mtpro2) from PCTeX. The web site mentions some journals that use these fonts.



      The fonts are non-free and, to achieve what is wanted here are, chargeable (the non-free but no-cost 'lite' version does not include the 'blackboard bold italic' and 'holey bold italic' fonts which the two samples below use, using a simple redefinition of mathbb). The outputs are just .pngs of screenprints so don't use these to judge the resolution of the original fonts.



      documentclass[12pt]{article}
      usepackage[mtpbbi]{mtpro2}
      begin{document}
      $mathbb{mu} , mathbb{M}$ % assuming 'Mu' = 'M'
      end{document}




      documentclass[12pt]{article}
      usepackage[mtpbbi]{mtpro2}
      begin{document}
      $mathbb{mu} , mathbb{M}$
      end{document}







      share|improve this answer


























        10












        10








        10







        Another font set that can provide this is MathTime Professional II fonts (mtpro2) from PCTeX. The web site mentions some journals that use these fonts.



        The fonts are non-free and, to achieve what is wanted here are, chargeable (the non-free but no-cost 'lite' version does not include the 'blackboard bold italic' and 'holey bold italic' fonts which the two samples below use, using a simple redefinition of mathbb). The outputs are just .pngs of screenprints so don't use these to judge the resolution of the original fonts.



        documentclass[12pt]{article}
        usepackage[mtpbbi]{mtpro2}
        begin{document}
        $mathbb{mu} , mathbb{M}$ % assuming 'Mu' = 'M'
        end{document}




        documentclass[12pt]{article}
        usepackage[mtpbbi]{mtpro2}
        begin{document}
        $mathbb{mu} , mathbb{M}$
        end{document}







        share|improve this answer













        Another font set that can provide this is MathTime Professional II fonts (mtpro2) from PCTeX. The web site mentions some journals that use these fonts.



        The fonts are non-free and, to achieve what is wanted here are, chargeable (the non-free but no-cost 'lite' version does not include the 'blackboard bold italic' and 'holey bold italic' fonts which the two samples below use, using a simple redefinition of mathbb). The outputs are just .pngs of screenprints so don't use these to judge the resolution of the original fonts.



        documentclass[12pt]{article}
        usepackage[mtpbbi]{mtpro2}
        begin{document}
        $mathbb{mu} , mathbb{M}$ % assuming 'Mu' = 'M'
        end{document}




        documentclass[12pt]{article}
        usepackage[mtpbbi]{mtpro2}
        begin{document}
        $mathbb{mu} , mathbb{M}$
        end{document}








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            I also spent a lot of time on the issue and found nothing satisfactory. So I made up my own blackboard bold mu and alpha:



            documentclass{minimal}
            usepackage{amssymb}
            newcommand{Balpha}{mbox{$hspace{0.12em}shortmidhspace{-0.62em}alpha$}}
            usepackage{xcolor}
            usepackage{graphicx}
            newcommand{Bmu}{mbox{$raisebox{-0.59ex}
            {$l$}hspace{-0.18em}muhspace{-0.88em}raisebox{-0.98ex}{scalebox{2}
            {$color{white}.$}}hspace{-0.416em}raisebox{+0.88ex}
            {$color{white}.$}hspace{0.46em}$}{}}
            begin{document}
            $BalphaquadBmu$
            end{document}


            This produces



            blackboard bold alpha and mu
            (source: uni-muenster.de)






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            • +1 from new, in particular for the Bmu. You could improve the Balpha by using a rule instead of the shortmid.

              – Hendrik Vogt
              May 24 '13 at 6:58
















            7














            I also spent a lot of time on the issue and found nothing satisfactory. So I made up my own blackboard bold mu and alpha:



            documentclass{minimal}
            usepackage{amssymb}
            newcommand{Balpha}{mbox{$hspace{0.12em}shortmidhspace{-0.62em}alpha$}}
            usepackage{xcolor}
            usepackage{graphicx}
            newcommand{Bmu}{mbox{$raisebox{-0.59ex}
            {$l$}hspace{-0.18em}muhspace{-0.88em}raisebox{-0.98ex}{scalebox{2}
            {$color{white}.$}}hspace{-0.416em}raisebox{+0.88ex}
            {$color{white}.$}hspace{0.46em}$}{}}
            begin{document}
            $BalphaquadBmu$
            end{document}


            This produces



            blackboard bold alpha and mu
            (source: uni-muenster.de)






            share|improve this answer


























            • +1 from new, in particular for the Bmu. You could improve the Balpha by using a rule instead of the shortmid.

              – Hendrik Vogt
              May 24 '13 at 6:58














            7












            7








            7







            I also spent a lot of time on the issue and found nothing satisfactory. So I made up my own blackboard bold mu and alpha:



            documentclass{minimal}
            usepackage{amssymb}
            newcommand{Balpha}{mbox{$hspace{0.12em}shortmidhspace{-0.62em}alpha$}}
            usepackage{xcolor}
            usepackage{graphicx}
            newcommand{Bmu}{mbox{$raisebox{-0.59ex}
            {$l$}hspace{-0.18em}muhspace{-0.88em}raisebox{-0.98ex}{scalebox{2}
            {$color{white}.$}}hspace{-0.416em}raisebox{+0.88ex}
            {$color{white}.$}hspace{0.46em}$}{}}
            begin{document}
            $BalphaquadBmu$
            end{document}


            This produces



            blackboard bold alpha and mu
            (source: uni-muenster.de)






            share|improve this answer















            I also spent a lot of time on the issue and found nothing satisfactory. So I made up my own blackboard bold mu and alpha:



            documentclass{minimal}
            usepackage{amssymb}
            newcommand{Balpha}{mbox{$hspace{0.12em}shortmidhspace{-0.62em}alpha$}}
            usepackage{xcolor}
            usepackage{graphicx}
            newcommand{Bmu}{mbox{$raisebox{-0.59ex}
            {$l$}hspace{-0.18em}muhspace{-0.88em}raisebox{-0.98ex}{scalebox{2}
            {$color{white}.$}}hspace{-0.416em}raisebox{+0.88ex}
            {$color{white}.$}hspace{0.46em}$}{}}
            begin{document}
            $BalphaquadBmu$
            end{document}


            This produces



            blackboard bold alpha and mu
            (source: uni-muenster.de)







            share|improve this answer














            share|improve this answer



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            edited 10 hours ago









            Glorfindel

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            answered May 23 '13 at 19:31









            Urs HartlUrs Hartl

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            7111













            • +1 from new, in particular for the Bmu. You could improve the Balpha by using a rule instead of the shortmid.

              – Hendrik Vogt
              May 24 '13 at 6:58



















            • +1 from new, in particular for the Bmu. You could improve the Balpha by using a rule instead of the shortmid.

              – Hendrik Vogt
              May 24 '13 at 6:58

















            +1 from new, in particular for the Bmu. You could improve the Balpha by using a rule instead of the shortmid.

            – Hendrik Vogt
            May 24 '13 at 6:58





            +1 from new, in particular for the Bmu. You could improve the Balpha by using a rule instead of the shortmid.

            – Hendrik Vogt
            May 24 '13 at 6:58











            4














            Just for kicks, you could kludge together your own version which is similar to the symbol in the book you linked in the comments



            documentclass{minimal}
            usepackage{amsmath}
            usepackage{xcolor}
            usepackage{graphicx}
            newcommand{dmu}{$mu$hspace{-3.2pt}$mu$hspace{-5.7pt}raisebox{-3.06pt}{scalebox{1.6}{$color{white}cdot$}}}
            begin{document}
            dmu
            end{document}


            Which produces,



            doublemu






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            • This is probably the easiest solution. I badly needed a blackboard tau, so I came up with newcommand{bbtau}{tau mspace{-7.5mu} tau mspace{-8.7mu} rule{0.25ex}{.5pt} mspace{8mu} mspace{-12.7mu}raisebox{0.68ex}{rule{0.3ex}{.3pt}} mspace{9.12mu}}

              – Emilio Ferrucci
              Jul 12 '17 at 13:30


















            4














            Just for kicks, you could kludge together your own version which is similar to the symbol in the book you linked in the comments



            documentclass{minimal}
            usepackage{amsmath}
            usepackage{xcolor}
            usepackage{graphicx}
            newcommand{dmu}{$mu$hspace{-3.2pt}$mu$hspace{-5.7pt}raisebox{-3.06pt}{scalebox{1.6}{$color{white}cdot$}}}
            begin{document}
            dmu
            end{document}


            Which produces,



            doublemu






            share|improve this answer
























            • This is probably the easiest solution. I badly needed a blackboard tau, so I came up with newcommand{bbtau}{tau mspace{-7.5mu} tau mspace{-8.7mu} rule{0.25ex}{.5pt} mspace{8mu} mspace{-12.7mu}raisebox{0.68ex}{rule{0.3ex}{.3pt}} mspace{9.12mu}}

              – Emilio Ferrucci
              Jul 12 '17 at 13:30
















            4












            4








            4







            Just for kicks, you could kludge together your own version which is similar to the symbol in the book you linked in the comments



            documentclass{minimal}
            usepackage{amsmath}
            usepackage{xcolor}
            usepackage{graphicx}
            newcommand{dmu}{$mu$hspace{-3.2pt}$mu$hspace{-5.7pt}raisebox{-3.06pt}{scalebox{1.6}{$color{white}cdot$}}}
            begin{document}
            dmu
            end{document}


            Which produces,



            doublemu






            share|improve this answer













            Just for kicks, you could kludge together your own version which is similar to the symbol in the book you linked in the comments



            documentclass{minimal}
            usepackage{amsmath}
            usepackage{xcolor}
            usepackage{graphicx}
            newcommand{dmu}{$mu$hspace{-3.2pt}$mu$hspace{-5.7pt}raisebox{-3.06pt}{scalebox{1.6}{$color{white}cdot$}}}
            begin{document}
            dmu
            end{document}


            Which produces,



            doublemu







            share|improve this answer












            share|improve this answer



            share|improve this answer










            answered Jun 4 '12 at 7:25









            Scott H.Scott H.

            8,21722463




            8,21722463













            • This is probably the easiest solution. I badly needed a blackboard tau, so I came up with newcommand{bbtau}{tau mspace{-7.5mu} tau mspace{-8.7mu} rule{0.25ex}{.5pt} mspace{8mu} mspace{-12.7mu}raisebox{0.68ex}{rule{0.3ex}{.3pt}} mspace{9.12mu}}

              – Emilio Ferrucci
              Jul 12 '17 at 13:30





















            • This is probably the easiest solution. I badly needed a blackboard tau, so I came up with newcommand{bbtau}{tau mspace{-7.5mu} tau mspace{-8.7mu} rule{0.25ex}{.5pt} mspace{8mu} mspace{-12.7mu}raisebox{0.68ex}{rule{0.3ex}{.3pt}} mspace{9.12mu}}

              – Emilio Ferrucci
              Jul 12 '17 at 13:30



















            This is probably the easiest solution. I badly needed a blackboard tau, so I came up with newcommand{bbtau}{tau mspace{-7.5mu} tau mspace{-8.7mu} rule{0.25ex}{.5pt} mspace{8mu} mspace{-12.7mu}raisebox{0.68ex}{rule{0.3ex}{.3pt}} mspace{9.12mu}}

            – Emilio Ferrucci
            Jul 12 '17 at 13:30







            This is probably the easiest solution. I badly needed a blackboard tau, so I came up with newcommand{bbtau}{tau mspace{-7.5mu} tau mspace{-8.7mu} rule{0.25ex}{.5pt} mspace{8mu} mspace{-12.7mu}raisebox{0.68ex}{rule{0.3ex}{.3pt}} mspace{9.12mu}}

            – Emilio Ferrucci
            Jul 12 '17 at 13:30




















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