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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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16
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3answers
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How can I create a new extensible symbol?
Given an arbitrary thin vertical symbol, can I create a new math delimiter from it (and if so, how)?
Edit: Ideally, I would like to be able to create an extensible symbol, either built out an ...
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3answers
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Can \left( … \right) be instructed to ignore nonexistent upper or lower limits of summation? [duplicate]
In a formula such as
\[ \left( \sum_{n\in\mathbf{N}} \right) \]
the left and right delimiters extend not only downwards to cover the lower limit of the sum, but upwards an equal amount as if to ...
2
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1answer
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How to automatically scale `\mid` within delimiters
\mid within \left and \right delimiters is expected to be automatically scaled, but today I noticed such behavior:
L = \sup \left\{ \sum_{x \in F} a(x) \mid F \subset X,\, |F| < \infty \right\},
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18
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1answer
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Sloppy \left and \right?
The \left and \right commands often produce improvidently large delimiters. It almost always looks better to use delimiters that are just slightly too small than delimiters that are too large. With ...
6
votes
2answers
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Space added after \right
I have a problem regarding the space added by \right..
I have read this answer regarding the topic, where @egreg proposes a macro that deletes this space. However, when using this in my own ...
6
votes
1answer
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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 ...
6
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0answers
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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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1answer
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Compatibility between amsmath and exscale
Both the amsmath package and the exscale package define the delimiter macros \big, \Big, \bigg and \Bigg based on the internal macro \bBigg@. However, as the following minimal example reveals the ...
8
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3answers
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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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2answers
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What do the pieces of LaTeX, \left and \right, respectively mean?
What are their uses and are they even standard?
3
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0answers
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Character combination and horizontal spacing [closed]
Thanks for this awesome website that helped me countless times!
I need to use double square brackets. I know about those in the stmaryrd and MnSymbol packages, and I heard about unicode-math—but for ...
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1answer
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\( \) don't work with TOC?
If i write this line of code
\subsection{Ranger \( n \) boules distinguables dans \( M \) boîtes}
I obtain an error over the second \)
(./Probabilité.toc
./Probabilité.toc:8: LaTeX Error: Bad ...
4
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2answers
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Fence/delimiter stored inside in a macro
I'm wondering, say I have this definition
\newcommand\restrictedTo{\vert\sb}
to be used as $f \restrictedTo A$.
This works fine, but
$f \big \restrictedTo A$
fails, whereas
$\left. f \right ...
7
votes
2answers
142 views
delimiters with exact size
I'm looking to get a delimiter at an exact and user specified
(point) size, rather than the default "a discrete size big
enough to hold the contents" of \left( etc.
Is this possible? I've tried ...
4
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1answer
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Algorithmicx — How to use latex maths delimiters
Today, I decided to migrate from using TeX [$..$] to LaTeX [\(..\)] delimiters for inline maths, and, as usual, fell off the cliff of my somewhat precarious understanding of TeXian gastroenterology, ...
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4answers
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Latex: Nice abs
I have this expression: |x-|x-|x-4|||
Now, every | sign has the same size, but I'd like to make the outward pairs bigger.
Is it possible to do it automatically, or do I have to define the size of ...
6
votes
1answer
431 views
Extend double vertical bar
I'm trying to write an expression in math mode similar to this formula:
My LaTeX expression looks like this:
\min \| \begin{array}{c} ... \end{array} \|
but it happens that the double lines are ...
5
votes
1answer
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What's wrong with my braket macro?
Based on egreg's alternate solution to my previous question from which I learned the idea of making characters into macros, I've now defined a different syntax for bra-kets which I actually like even ...
34
votes
2answers
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automatic size adjustment for nested parentheses
As I prefer outer parentheses to grow larger in nested expressions, I happen to insert \bigl and \bigr and its larger cousins a lot. I have always wondered whether there is a way to do this ...
6
votes
1answer
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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 ...
4
votes
2answers
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Is there a way to detect `\left` in front of macros?
Is there a way to have a macro optionally prefixed with \left or \right and have it expand differently depending on that? For example, have \bra{x} expand to \langle x |, but \left\bra{x} to ...
9
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1answer
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Is there a package to differently color nested expressions in the output?
Say I have an expressions like $(\sin(x-3(z^{(x-2)^2}))+1)^2$ with many nested expressions. To better visualize this in the output (and to help finding missing delimiters when proof-reading) I'd like ...
3
votes
1answer
556 views
XeTeX \left and \right problem
I have a problem with the 〈 and 〉 symbols (Unicode encoding: 27E8 and 27E9) which replace the \langle and \rangle, when I try to combine them with \left and \right commands. The following examples ...
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3answers
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Using ] and [ as math symbols, not delimiters
I'm writing some topology up, and I prefer to use the notation ]a,b[ to denote an open interval as opposed to (a,b), since the ( and ) symbols tend to be over used in this subject.
Is there a ...
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2answers
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Splitting a long equation with a curly brace for the equations in two lines
The equation that I have pasted below is very long. I want the first equation (e34a) after dw^2/dx^2 to be split in two lines with a common curly brace for the equation in two lines. My code is
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3
votes
3answers
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Resize integral evaluation limits
When I want to show evaluation of limits of an integral, I would type
\int_1^2 x\; dx=\frac{x^2}{2}|_1^2=4-\frac{1}{2}=\frac{7}{2}
How do I get the vertical bar showing the limits big enough? I ...
6
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2answers
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Why the control sequences \bigl, \biggl, \bigr or \biggr, as I can always use \big or \bigg ?
If my manuscript file has
$$\biggl({\partial^2\over \partial x^2}+
{\partial^2 \over \partial y^2}\biggr)\bigl|\varphi(x+iy)\bigr|^2 = 0$$
or
$$\bigg({\partial^2\over \partial x^2}+
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8
votes
3answers
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Cases with square brackets
How can I subdivide in cases with square brackets?
I mean I want to write:
⌈ 2_i if ...
rank (q, l) = | 2_i + 1 if ...
⌊ ....
with square brackets, not ...
41
votes
3answers
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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 ...
12
votes
1answer
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How can I have a bigger integral (\int) delimiter?
I'm writing some integrals and I don't like the way the \int symbol is displayed when it is followed by a big delimiter.
Here's the code:
\[
\int_S\biggl(\nabla\times\bar B - \mu_0\bar J -
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9
votes
2answers
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Is there a command for large middle delimiters consistent with \bigl and \bigr?
After browsing through related threads, I am now of the understanding (please correct me if I am wrong) that the rule of thumb is to use the \bigl,\bigr pair with brackets, parentheses, etc. for ...
