On Mar 25, 2:05 pm, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote:
> let me clarify one thing: I'm not trying to persuade everyone to
> change to mathbf.
No, I think it is obvious that you are trying to accommodate both
camps (which I applaud).
> Maybe a setting in an init.sage file? How do you use that file? Can
> you just put 'latex_customize.use_blackboard_bold(True)' in it?
That sounds like the sort of thing I was suggesting, but I don't have
any experience with that file yet.
> I intend it to be used only for those circumstances where reasonable
> people might want to switch from one choice to the other, so I tried
> to change \mathbf to \Bold only for ZZ, RR, QQ, CC, and perhaps for P
> (projective space). I certainly left other uses of \mathbf{blah} and
> \mathbb{blah} in the code. I probably missed some cases, and I
> probably changed a few I shouldn't have, but do my intentions sound
> right? (Answering you literally, some people would suggest that
> blackboard fonts would always be inappropriate :)
That sounds great. Do you think a different name would keep somebody
from mis-using it later? Possibly they are just trying to bold
something, and then for those using the blackboard bold switch they
get some screwieness? Maybe
\BoldStyleForReallyReallyCommonRingsAndFields{}? ;-)
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