Maths: Ugly display of set Symbols via \mathbb{...}

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Maths: Ugly display of set Symbols via \mathbb{...}

Hello,

did anybody else stumble on the problem that in mathematical texts (in LaTex environment of iBA) set letters are not displayed properly? For example the symbol for real numbers is displayed with a second vertical line. I think everybody knows what I mean. In LaTex this is done via the markup \mathbb{R} (which displays the symbol for real numbers). Whereas in iBA the same markup results in a quiete normal uppercase R.

Does anybody know a solution for this?

Thanks a lot in advance!

rockie

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Apr 6, 2013 9:54 AM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Apr 6, 2013 11:39 AM in response to rockie667

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4844301

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rockie667 Author

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Apr 6, 2013 1:08 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Hi Tom,

thanks for your answer, but copy & paste as .gif is no possible solution for me!

To be honest, I expected Apple to recognize this obvious misbehaviour soon and that they solve it in an update of iBA. So I coded all appearences of set symbols in LaTex with \mathbb and always was waiting on an update. In my opinion this faulty behaviour is so incomprehensible since apart from that displaying TaTex works as expected!

Maybe I shoud have reported this earlier to the Apple support - But this malpractice to me seemed to be so obvious that I expected many, many authors to report it.

Best regards

rockie

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