The fonts available to me do not support angle brackets that span more than a few lines. Sometimes, lists delimited by angle brackets can reach a large height, in particular if they contain multi-line elements:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{scalerel}
\begin{document}
$\left<
\left(\begin{array}{c} a\\b\\c\\d\\e \end{array}\right)
\right>$
\end{document}
With the scalerel
package, one solution is:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{scalerel}
\begin{document}
$\stretchleftright[1000]{<}{
\left(\begin{array}{c} a\\b\\c\\d\\e \end{array}\right)
}{>}$
\end{document}
My question is whether I can use the scalerel
package to modify the meaning of the delimiters <
and >
, such that the outputs of the above examples will be equal.
I've read (TeXbyTopic, Section 21.2.2) that it is possible to define delimiters using, e.g. \def\langle{\delimiter ...}
, but I do not know how to include a scalerel
macro with \delimiter
.
(There are at least two other approaches to finding larger angle brackets, (1) \DeclarePairedDelimiter
from mathtools
and (2) loading the glyph from a different font. My question would be whether re-defining the meanings of <
and >
would be another solution.)