The square brackets [x]
in math mode get typeset quite different from the floor and ceiling delimiters \lfloor
etc.
For the square brackets, there is less spacing to the inner characters, and also the top and bottom horizontal lines are shorter.
Question: Is there some way to make these look more similar? I prefer the style of the floor/ceiling delimiters.
For the beginning, I would be glad if there were a character which I can use instead of [
, which looks like \lfloor
and \lceil
combined. If there is no character like this, how can I build one?
Note: I really really like my current math font (it seems to be "Latin Modern"), and therefore do not want to change it if I can avoid it.
[
and\lfloor
(or\lceil
) are not equally long. Similarly, the horizontal portions of]
and\rfloor
(or\rceil
) are not equally long. Hence, what you claim to be "less spacing to the inner characters" with[...]
appears to be an apples-to-oranges comparison. If you look really closely, you'll notice that horizontal distance between the right-hand-most part of either[
or\lfloor
andx
is actually exactly the same. The impression of "less spacing" with[
is entirely due to the fact that[
has much less of a horizontal component.\left
,\right
,\bigl
,\bigr
, ...,\Biggl
,\Biggr
? (b) Are you loading thelmodern
package?