Questions tagged [braces]
Conventionally { and }; used to delimit groups or arguments in (La)TeX code.
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Adding a large brace next to a table: Beamer
I have the following table in Beamer:
I would like to add a large curly brace "{" on the left of the table (outside) spanning the first three rows and add some information concerning these rows ...
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Nested braces using cases
I want to use nested braces but the following code is giving errors. What is wrong here? How can I correct it?
$\psi_n(x)=
\begin{cases}
\begin{aligned}
&1 &= &\ 2\\
&...
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How to use curly braces over multiple lines?
I would like to typeset a multi-line set.
I want to typeset something similar to this image:
I have tried using an equation environment and an align environment but to no avail.
Attempt
\...
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How can I put right brace to group cases without using math mode? [duplicate]
I want do put right brace to group two cases (mixed normal and math mode) but when I try something, it says that I can do it only in math mode. Can someone help me, please?
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How to put right brace to group cases without using math mode? [duplicate]
I want do put right brace to group two cases (mixed normal and math mode) but when I try something, it says that I can do it only in math mode. Can someone help me, please?
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Is there a way to change latex to be able to write less curly braces in math mode?
The markup for complex expressions in latex often gets very big, unreadable and hard to edit. I feel it could be better, at least sometimes. Maybe I don't understand something about parsing, and I ...
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Multiline curly braces
I know how to draw the following multiline matrix using brackets on both sides:
$$\begin{bmatrix}1&5&-3\\-2&-13&8\\3&-3&1\end{bmatrix}$$
The question is, how do I do it with ...
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Left and right brace around different number of rows without tikzmark
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blkarray}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{xparse}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathreplacing,calc,tikzmark}
% \usetikzlibrary{external}
\...
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Draw right brace which covers first four items of enumerated list
Question:
How can i draw big right brace which is covering first four items?
MWE:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage[left=1....
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Help with Maths equation [duplicate]
I am very new to any form of Latex and markdown coding but I am trying to assist my student as much as possible. He is visually impaired and is finding markdown, with maths in LaTex, really accessible ...
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Mathtools and Mtpro2 curly brace
In the mathtools package there is the dcases environment by which mathematical expressions are presented in displaystyle mode in each row of the case environment, as shown in the first picture.
With ...
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How to typeset a complicated align environment with lots of braces spanning several lines
I would like to typeset the plan of a complicated proof - something like an align environment, but with lots of braces spanning multiple lines on both sides. Here is a rough picture of what I want:
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How to improve poorly rendered braces around TikZ figure?
Trying with TikZ to have a figure surrounded by braces above and below, the result is quite ugly: braces as well as node besides look poorly rendered, as it there was a problem in their rasterization.
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Extra long braces with \begin{array}[t]
the following is a snippet of a lecture note I am typing.
\[ \mathscr F=\left\{\{B_{\a}\}_{\a\in J}: \begin{array}[t]{rl}
i) & B_{\a} \text{ are open}\\
ii) & \{...
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Grouped and aligned expressions
The effect I'm trying to achieve is illustrated here:
The blue line indicates the desired alignment axis. Specifically, I want to align the arrows but also have a curly brace to the left of the ...
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vim/vimtex editing text in curly braces
What is the fastest way to edit the content of braces in vim.
I use the vimtex plugin.
I'm looking for a similiar way like 'cit' (change in tag) does for HTML editing.
For example:
\title{Some ...
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Regular sized fonts in oubraces package
I am using the oubraces package to get overlapping over/underbraces in an equation. My equation is in the following MWE:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{oubraces}
\...
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Label equations with braces and line breaks
I have never used this before, so please bear with me. I am trying to label parts of the flow conservation equation for momentum with braces, which I have done before. However, I can't figure out how ...
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How can I add a single curly brace to a macro?
I am trying to compose \textit{abc} like this:
\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\def\test{}
\catcode123=12 % change cat code of "{" to "other"
\g@addto@macro\test{
\catcode123=1 % restore the ...
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Curly braces using mtpro2[lite]: fix correct alignment
I am trying to find a solution, but actually I have failed, to use curly bracket (using \ccases) for the system symbol of three equations (or more), as for this example. If I adding the & I have ...
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Find Lines Lacking Closing Braces
Is there an easy way to do this? Ideally, a closing bracket would be added to the line lacking the bracket.
Is there a SED/AWK answer?
Some lines will read:
\url{http://google.com}
While others:
\...
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Is it possible to redirect unbalanced braces (`{` and `}`) into a tabular column?
This question is a follow up to my previous question:
Is it possible to use > and < to pipe opening and closing braces on each side of a cell's content? To be more specific, what I want is to ...
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Why does \tag require braces while \frac doesn't?
I'm used to using \tag without braces like \tag3 instead of \tag{3} in Markdown+MathJax, where it works as fine as does \frac12 in normal LaTeX. But when I tried to do this in a real .tex source ...
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Braces spanning multiple tables (whole tables, not rows or pages)
I've got a bunch of tables arranged like so:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\begin{minipage}[c][1\totalheight][t]{0.45\textwidth}%
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|...
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Create a table with once- and twice-hatched regions and curly braces
I try to make the next table with this hatching, dashed lines of cells and curly braces in Latex:
I have seen a lot of different examples on this website: Set table background hatched and shaded ...
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How to get math mode curly braces in TikZ?
The only curly braces in TikZ I'm currently aware of are the ones in the library \usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathreplacing}. However, I don't like the way they look, I'd much prefer ordinary braces ...
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how to put left brace in equation? [duplicate]
i want to write like this
/ki if 0<I<IO
|
t(i)= <
|
\c if I>Io
here is curly bracket
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Multiline braces in KOMA-Script titlepage before `\begin{document}`
I'm using KOMA-Script to typeset a stage play. We have two identical sets of characters, one living, one dead. I want to go for a classic look and want to to group these in the list of characters ...
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Text under an arrow without braces
Problem:
Placing text under rightarrow without using solutions such as \underbrace.
Minimal Working Example (MWE)
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\noindent \textit{x} = 2 $\Rightarrow$ 2 $\...
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'TeXnicCenter' auto complete braces, brackets and alike
I'd like 'TeXnicCenter' to autocomplete the braces parentheses and likes, kind of like 'Sublime Text' does. I think, it has to do with some XML files, but I'm new to this.
Here is the wished ...
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Incorrect line spacing when text is in curly braces [duplicate]
Consider this minimal working example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
{
\Huge
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibulum
}
\Huge
Lorem ...
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Why do \large and \textbf require different usage of braces?
\large and other font size commands need to be placed inside a group:
In this text {\large some part} is large.
Whereas \textbf and other styling commands receive a parameter:
In this text \textbf{...
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Add vertical braces to lists
I want to add vertical braces to a list of group axioms, in order to determine which of the following axioms need to hold for monoids, groups and abelian groups. I'm not really sure how to achieve ...
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How can I use braces for cites in biblatex package
I am trying to put braces before and after my cite like this:
The IoT environment are.... (IoT Book).
instead of
The IoT environment are.... IoT Book.
How can I succeed this?
My code in ...
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How to get a single big right brace?
I am trying to make the right brace cover the whole matrix like the `\overbrace'. Is there a way to do this?
\documentclass[reqno,12pt]{amsart}
\usepackage{amsmath,mathtools,amssymb}
\usepackage[top=...
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How to write a macro that is braces sensitive?
In the xparse package, there is the g type of argument which captures things inside a pair of TeX group tokens. This makes it possible to define commands \foo that behaves differently for \foo{a} and \...
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Alignment in nested align [duplicate]
How can I align equations in nested align ?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsfonts}
\usepackage{flexisym}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation*}
CT_i = \left\{\begin {aligned}
...
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multi line equation with full left brace, small right brace and text at right bottom of right brace
I want to write a three line equation with left curly brace for all three, right curly brace for bottom two ones and some text at right bottom of right curly brace. All with proper alignment. I wrote ...
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Help! Why does my curly brace show as a straight line?
I'm a beginner at latex and I've been reading everything I found about curl braces. I managed to positioned it where I wanted it but now my curly brace appears as a straight line. When I write the ...
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Grouping enumerated list with different width?
I found this nice answer regarding grouping of enumerated list. But it does not work for lists with different width. For instance
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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LaTeX braces around a letter [duplicate]
Hello...I don't know the technical term for the above braces and so unable to find anything online.
I would be grateful if someone can tell me what they're called.
Thanks,
HP
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Is coding multi-line curly braces in text mode possible?
I need to typeset the following document:
I have coded the following
\documentclass[french, a4paper, 10pt]{book}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\...
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How to embed braces inside an `\ensuremath` environment inside a `\newglossaryentry`?
Running pdflatex on the following document
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{glossaries-extra}
\newglossaryentry{injective}{name={\ensuremath{X\overset{1:1}{\rightarrow}Y}},description={injective ...
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Braces for block matrix
I have a block matrix S of dimension (Lm+n)\times (L+n)m
But I think it is not written in a clear way for the reader. Do you have suggestions?
this is the code I wrote so far (thanks to some ...
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TexStudio: Auto-completion of empty braces for commands without arguments
I did some search but could not find a similar question. Thank you for sending me a link if there's one. My question is as follows:
For convenience when writing latex, I use a lot of custom commands ...
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Vertical alignment of \rbrace
I tried to solve the follwing problem for a while but couldn't find a solution yet. I would like to align two \rbraces vertically. This code
\begin{align}
L = &\left. \text{short eq} \right\...
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! Argument of \align* has an extra }
When I run the following code:
\begin{align*}
\text{Here, } i = 2, 5, \text{ and } 6, \text{ because observations 2, 5, and 6 } & \text{are the closest (by Euclidian distance)} \\
P(Y = Red \mid ...
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Add upper brace on matrix with good alignement on each parameter
From this upper brace, I try to put a brace over the first 9 columns the 9 parameters below. I would like to align them with the 9 first columns of matrix, each one of this parameter aligned with each ...
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Inserting braces in a brace [duplicate]
I don’t know how can I ensert the right braces using latex...
Any help is appreciated...
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A curious dependency between \newcommand and curly braces
An example is a bit artificial, but the point is that I do not understand why
{} influence the outcome of \newcommand in the way described below.
Consider the following definition:
\newcommand\...
