Getting Math Symbols on MikTeX and TeXnicCenter

[Hurkyl]

My installation of MikTeX (and the TeXnicCenter) has bothered me for a while, because it doesn't have some of my favorite fonts, such as mathbb. (\mathbb{R}) However, I just found out it doesn't even have the integral sign!

I checked the package manager, and nothing that I didn't have installed looked like it would contain things like this...

Someone else has to have already run into this problem and figured out what to do... so how do I get 'em? =)

 

[Townsend]

My installation of MikTeX (and the TeXnicCenter) has bothered me for a while, because it doesn't have some of my favorite fonts, such as mathbb. (\mathbb{R}) However, I just found out it doesn't even have the integral sign!

I checked the package manager, and nothing that I didn't have installed looked like it would contain things like this...

Someone else has to have already run into this problem and figured out what to do... so how do I get 'em? =)

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\topskip 0in
\textheight 8.0in
\textwidth 6.5in
\oddsidemargin 0in
\evensidemargin 0in
\headheight 0in
\boldmath
\flushbottom
\begin{document}
\noindent

$$
\int{sin(x)}dx
$$


\end{document}

Copy and paste it, save a source file and try to compile it as a DVI. Does that give you a integral symbol?

 

[Hurkyl]

Actually, I figured out my integral woes...

I had copied a header where I had defined \int for something. That still doesn't explain why I couldn't find the integral sign in the documentation, though! Bad TeXnicCenter!

I'd still like to get \mathbb if you know how...

 

[honestrosewater]

Don't those come with AMS? http://www.ams.org/tex/

 

[Jelfish]

I believe honestrosewater is right (I've been using MikTeX as well).

Here's a good pdf file for math latex, in case you may be using the wrong function names:
http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/local/Guides/short-math-guide.pdf

 

[Townsend]

\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{pictex}

use these and you should be fine...I cannot say for sure what package it is in but those work fine for me.

Good luck

 

[Triss]

\usepackage{amssymb} is enough for the blackboard bold math font, though if you use math extensively you should consider always using at least something like

\documentclass[12pt, article]{memoir}
 
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{mathtools}

\newcommand{\R}{\mathbb{R}}

\begin{document}

$\R$

\[
\R
\]
 
\end{document}

 

[Hurkyl]

Yay, it does seem to have "amssymb". (Sigh, I had only guessed at amssym and amssymbol)