# How to get the straight vertical line next to derivatives?

I am trying to get this to display:

My current attempt is :

\begin{align} \frac{\dd{x_c^{*}(t,u)}}{\dd{u}}=\gamma + \alpha \lambda \{[r(t)-x(t,0)]\\ + \frac{1}{1+\alpha\beta\lambda}[\frac{\dd{r(t)}}{\dd{t}}-\gamma] \end{align}


I have defined a macro \dd above as (uses the physics package) :

\newcommand{\dd}[1]{\mathrm{d}#1}


I couldn't find how to display that vertical line next to the derivative ( just left of the = sign ) with u=0 on it. Everything else displays fine with my code.

• A compilable example would be nice – user31729 Dec 15 '15 at 16:07
• @ChristianHupfer Done. – Purak Dec 15 '15 at 16:11
• Well, the equation stuff is still only a fragment ;-) – user31729 Dec 15 '15 at 16:18

One way is to use a fake \mleft. and \mright\vert mathematical delimiter pair.

There might be better ways.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{mleftright}
\usepackage{physics}

\begin{document}

\begin{align}
\mleft.\dfrac{\dd{x_c^{*}(t,u)}}{\dd{u}}\mright\vert_{u=0} &= \gamma + \alpha \lambda \mleft\{\mleft[r(t)-x(t,0)\mright] + \frac{1}{1+\alpha\beta\lambda}
\mleft[\frac{\dd{r(t)}}{\dd{t}}-\gamma\mright]\mright\}
\end{align}
\end{document}


• No comments: I will update with a better way ;-) – user31729 Dec 15 '15 at 16:11