We have already seen many examples of the symbols available in
--\alpha
, \psi
, and so on. There are some other
symbols which the amstex
and amssymb
packages make
available. These includes fonts for blackboard bold capital letters
( , , ), caligraphic ( , , ) and Fraktur ( , , ) letters. The
commands are \mathbb
, \mathcal
and \mathfrak
. They are valid
only in math mode, and they operate only on the letter or group that
immediately follows. that follows them. For example, is given by $\mathfrak S = \mathbb R^2/G$
.
To make the following table of symbols completely available, include the following package-loading command after your documentclass command.
\usepackage{amstex, amssymb}