Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Maths Symbols in NeoOffice

I wanted to have a character (representing the integers) in a NeoOffice document on Mac OS X 10.4. I couldn't find an installed font containing the character and according to Wikipedia I need a Blackboard Bold typeface style. After a few google searches I found a jsMath font that seemed to work fine.

4 comments:

Andrew said...

I don't what's more or less correct but pretty much everytime I've needed a weird maths symbol (relational alegbra stuff for example) Code 2000 has been the font for me (http://www.code2000.net/code2000_page.htm). That way you can use the right Unicode value too.

Brad Clow said...

Thanks Andrew. Font Book had a few issues validating the Code 2000 (v1.171) when importing on the Mac. It really didn't want me to install it.

Andrew said...

So oddly the version I downloaded is called 1.16 and it works fine. Code 2001 (http://code2000.net/code2001.htm) has the symbol for integers but doesn't have a lot of the others unfortunately.

The other source is GNU's freefont (http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/) including Free Mono.

Andrew said...

Oh and Mathematica fonts: http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/macintosh/general/latestfonts.html