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Less aggressive automatic paren stretching with \left
\left and \right are convenient but sometimes they're a bit overeager in stretching the parentheses. In that case we can manually use \bigl, \Bigl, etc.
I have defined a new command like this
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Easily change behavior of \DeclarePairedDelimiter
After seeing the answer to this question I realized that I preferred the way of working of Juan A. Navarro's answer:
I.e., \DeclarePairedDelimiter{\parens}{\lparen}{\rparen} from mathtools is a ...
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Spacing around \left and \right: When is it needed? [closed]
There have been a few questions (such as this and more recently this) regarding the "extra" spacing around \left and \right. And there are various options for fixing it, including the mleftright ...
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How to make pipe to grow with both sides?
How to make pipe (vertical bar) symbol to grow like in Dirac product notation but without outer angle brackets?
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1answer
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How to make expanding middle delimitors like in the braket package
The braket package has convenient commands like \Braket and \Set, where | are automatically expanded vertically. This allows to easily typeset expressions like
\documentclass{minimal}
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Using “found” code to typeset augmented matrices, want [] instead of ()
Here's a minimal example of what I'm doing presently:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{arydshln}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\env@matrix[1][*\c@MaxMatrixCols ...
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1answer
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bracket with doubled delimiters
I want to typeset Hilbert-Schmidt-Products as the Liouville-Equivalent of the Hilbert Space Braket, with doubled delimiters, like this: \Lbraket{\rho|\rho} results in <<rho|rho>>.
I was ...
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3answers
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Align large vertical delimiters (brackets) to rows of a table?
I’m trying to typeset a table of data, with brackets (i.e. }) at the right-hand side to show a classification of the rows. Something like:
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| Aardvark | Armenia | \
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2answers
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Escaping square braces
I want to use some text as the optional parameter to some command. The text includes square braces ([ and ]), but since the optional parameter goes within square brackets, unexpected things happen.
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Spacing around \left and \right
Why does the addition of a \left and \right introduces an extra space around the formula? Specifically, why do $\cos(\theta)$ and $\cos\left(\theta\right)$ render differently?
Is there a way to use ...
