[Tex/LaTex] How to generate bold face numbers in LaTeX as they appear in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint

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In MS Word and PowerPoint you have a set of these bold faced numbers written like

More specifically

Does anyone know if you can generate these using LaTeX? It does not seem to be the output of either mathbf, mathfrak, mathscr

Thanks!

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The right command in LaTeX is \mathbb, but the default fonts only have blackboard bold letter, not blackboard bold numbers.

The easiest solution is to use a Opentype Math font that has blackboard bold numbers; but this requires XeTeX or LuaTeX engine. For example, in ConTeXt you can use Cambria Math font as follows:

\setupbodyfont[cambria]

\starttext
$\Bbb 1234567890$
\stoptext

In LaTeX, I believe that one can use fontspec package to load opentype fonts.

If you just need boldface 1, you can use dsfont package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{dsfont}

\begin{document}
$\mathds{1}$
\end{document}

First case: square dot with equal spaceing

The first case is probably \centerdot of package amssymb:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\begin{document}
\[
  \exists n \in \mathbb{N} \centerdot \forall m \in \mathbb{N} \centerdot m < n
\]
\let\oldcenterdot\centerdot
\renewcommand*{\centerdot}{\mathrel{\oldcenterdot}}%
\[
  \exists\,n \in \mathbb{N} \centerdot \forall\,m \in \mathbb{N} \centerdot m < n
\]
\end{document}

\centerdot is a binary operator. In the image in the question, the spacing seems to be slightly larger. Therefore the second line uses

the spacing of a relational operator by redefining \centerdot and
adds a thin space after the quantifiers.

Second case: round dot with asymmetrical spacing

In the second case a bold version of the dot could be used. The spacing seems to be a little special, the example uses

half of a thin space at the left and
a thick space at the right (as for relational operators).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\newcommand*{\anddot}{%
  \mathclose{}%
  \nonscript\mskip.5\thinmuskip
  \boldsymbol{.}%
  \;%
  \mathopen{}%
}

\begin{document}
\[
  \forall x \in \mathbb{R} \anddot x^2 \ge 0
\]
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Edas submission warning

I guess in your page 9, you have a figure which expands to both columns. This causes EDAS to shoot a warning. I'm not sure of a certain solution (It's more like a bug in EDAS checking system), but trying to play with your figure and increase the space between your probable subfigures might help.

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[Tex/LaTex] How to produce dot between quantifiers

First case: square dot with equal spaceing

Second case: round dot with asymmetrical spacing

[Tex/LaTex] Edas submission warning

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