Are ∈ and ℝ symbols available in eqn/roff?
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A set of commonly used symbols to represent that a variable belongs to a given real coordinate space are ∈ ("ELEMENT OF", Unicode U+2208) and ℝ ("DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL R", Unicode U+211D).
Are those two symbols available in
I am using
eqn
, troff
, and/or groff
? I can not find them in the documentation.
*Edit:*
I have tested provided answer and I can get symbol ∈ ("ELEMENT OF", Unicode U+2208), but not symbol ℝ ("DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL R", Unicode U+211D).
Specifically, if I do:
.TL
Test
.NH
Introduction
.LP
Given an input in subspace \[u211D]:
.EQ
x \[mo] \[u211D] sup 2
.EN
with output estimated value:
.EQ
y hat
.EN
I get the following error:
cat test.ms | eqn | groff -ms > test.ps
troff: :8: warning: can't find special character 'u211D'
As it can be seen in the PS output ∈ is shown, but ℝ is not:

FreeBSD 12
eqn
and groff
.
Asked by M.E.
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May 6, 2021, 06:21 AM
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