Questions tagged [brackets]
{brackets} is about different brackets, their usage and functionality in (La)TeX.
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(Solved, New) Parenthesis while using subfig and autoref
MWE first.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[subrefformat=simple,labelformat=simple]{subfig}
%\newcommand{\subfigureautorefname}{\...
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Big Bracket for equations
How can I add the big bracket at the side of my equations, just like in the photo?
Below is my code for the equations.
\begin{align}
\frac{dS_d}{dt}&= A + \lambda_dR_d + \sigma_d(1-\gamma_d)E_d -...
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Square brackets with BibLatex in text and bibliography
I have read many related posts regarding the issue of having squared brackets with biblatex. Unfortunately, none have made me fully understand how to compute the squared brackets. I know that biblatex ...
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Problem with small brackets in `case` and `array` environment [closed]
When I write an equation for cases, the brackets do not adapt to size, they remain very small. Previously I solved a problem with the arrow drawings because I am using Spanish babel. I added \...
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Chemfig: Problem setting brackets for polymers
Hy everybody,
I am a newbie in LaTeX so I apologize if the question is not so precisely. I try to draw polymers with the Chemfig package. Everything works fine with except the brackets for the ...
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Creating a bracket [] macro for \ref when using hyperref
I've been trying to add brackets around cross-references in a more automatic manner in my recent report, but haven't been able to do so just yet. A simple \newcommand-macro does not seem to work. I've ...
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format specific table rows: elements in parenthesis
How can I format specific rows of a table, placing every element of such rows inside brackets?
I have tried adapting the command that I have seen here in this way:
\newcommand{\rowparenthesis}[1]{\...
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How to insert curly brackets in equation but to indicate what a member of that equation stands for? [duplicate]
It's simplier to show what I'd like to do
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Losing a right bracket when using \\ &\quad to split over two lines [duplicate]
I have a long equation, and here I am giving a sample code that illustrates the problem.
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
\left\{ fhfj \right\}
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
gives me
{fhfj}
while ...
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Can I make a larger left bracket? [duplicate]
For statements like the one below, I need a large left bracket to precede the array. \Biggr\{ is not big enough. Ideally I could use \left\{ and make the right bracket white, but there doesn't seem ...
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Curly bracket for subequation enviroment using the mtpro2 v. lite
Remembering the very nice answer given by the user @Mico, Curly braces using mtpro2[lite]: fix correct alignment, it has been used into an equation the enviroment
\ccases{\begin{aligned}.....\end{...
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How to define a bracket function that allows line breaking and auto-adjusts size?
I want to define a bracket function that allows line breaking and auto-adjusts the size of the bracket like the normal method did. By normal method I mean using \left\{\right\}.
According to this ...
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Creating bracket-enclosed, colored, hyperlinked text
How do I surround a hyperlink with square brackets using \href?
I want something like [Link] with square brackets, in black and "Link" in blue (my default hyper-link color).
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Thin parentheses bracket
How do I typeset the bracket/parentheses form the second equation.
I have been searching the internet and gone through various mathfonts but did not find the right one. Can someone please help me ...
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Automatically add parentheses if expression is composite
I'm trying to write a macro which automatically adds parentheses to an expression if the argument is composite.
Specifically, I would like to define a command for the inner product of two vectors ...
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Can I make a matrix from just a parts of the cells?
Can I make a matrix from just a parts of the cells?
i.e. not all the cells just some of it, like here:
It possible to make something like this?
Thank you!!
P.S. I'm using LyX.
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Bracket for dual pair (in functional analysis)
In functional analysis, one occasionally considers a so-called dual pair (a pair of vector spaces tied together by a non-degenerate bilinear map to the ground field). I usually typeset these using \...
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Brackets in \subsection titles
The mathematical text
${\mathbb Z}[\sqrt{2}]$
works perfectly well within the general text, but I want it as a subsection title. However,
\subsection${\mathbb Z}[\sqrt{2}]$
produces the ...
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Split equation with \begin{split} - brackets don't follow [duplicate]
I have a really long equation, which I want to split into two lines. I searched the internet and found that it works with a split environment. It actually does! But I have big (or automatically sized) ...
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Combining latex input and sed
I need to include file, but I want to manipulate it directly from PDFLaTeX.
I must remove any text which is betweem \{ and \}, including backslashes and parenthesis. I have tried many escaping options,...
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Issue with brackets ( using myblockquote)
I have an issue with the code. When I try to put multiples ( in my case 2 ou 3 ) \myblockquote. There are 2 more brackets that appear and the quote doesn't always start a new paragraph.
The code I use ...
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How can I remove the brackets around a reference if it is already in brackets?
I am using cleveref for cross-referencing in my thesis. For equations, it typically looks like this:
As can be seen in Eq. (5), the numbers don't add up.
However, sometimes I only want to ...
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Array inside an equation: open bracket in a line and close in another line [duplicate]
This code:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation}\label{eq:test}
\begin{array}{l}
\left[ \displaystyle \frac{e^{ix}}{2} = \\
= \sin (x) + \cos (x) \right]
\end{array}
\end{...
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Stretching a curly bracket to get better vertical symmetry
As can be seen in the following MWE,
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation*}
\left\{
\begin{aligned}
a&=\frac{b}{c} \\
a&=e
...
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Adding brackets below Tikz picture
I currently made the following timeline/picture in Tikz:
Which corresponds to the following code:
\begin{figure}
\caption{Scaling approach}
\noindent\begin{tikzpicture}
\matrix (M) [
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Multiline equation with aligned (amsmath) and brackets that contains the entire equation
I want to have the right side of the equation surrounded by square brackets with appropriate size.
How do I make the brackets contain many lines without ruining the alignment?
Minimal code that won'...
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How to specify language dialect in \lstline option?
First, here is some code that works fine:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{listings}
\begin{document}
\lstinline[language=algol,keywordstyle=\color{blue}]{int a}
\end{document}
...
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1answer
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Siunitx table, with a number in parentheses (single row)
I want a table column to be aligned using the thousands comma. But when I try to put a number in parentheses I get an error.
I have read previous answers which were not suitable for my situation, ...
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How to make \{ and \} automatically have \left and \right
Desired behavior
\{ and \} should turn into \left\{ and \right\{.
Attempt 1
\edef\{{\left\{}
\edef\}{\right\}}
Error message
TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].
\font@name ->...
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Adding curly brace to the right-hand side of the equation
I want to add brackets on one side of the equation and write something adjacent to it. But, I'm getting those words in the line below while I need those at one side of the equation. Can anyone help ?
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Hiding brackets after a definition
I use amsthm package to define the environment as
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,twoside,openright,notitlepage]{book}
\pdfobjcompresslevel 0
\usepackage[a-1b]{pdfx}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\...
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How to make big parenthesis in equation?
I am learning how to make like this, would you mind guys to help me? I just can't make a big parenthesis like this one. Thanks in advance.
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How can I make parentheses stick to formula?
I'm working with a class of functions roughly denoted by
\mathcal R\big(\Pi_+;\le\big).
The problem is that the last parenthesis won't "stick" to the rest. What I mean by that is that i.e. when the ...
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bmatrix brackets too tall when using package setspacing and setting \doublespacing [duplicate]
Is there a way to get the brackets of the matrices to ignore the spacing that I set up for the paper? There is just a little too much space at the top of each matrix when using \doublespacing. I would ...
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How to typeset \left \right parenthesis in LuaLaTeX in 2019?
With pdflatex I often used \left( and \right)
to scale the parenthesis of a function as in
\[\exp\left(\frac{a}{b}\right) \]
But this method was not perfect, because
the code is difficult to read
...
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pgfplots: Are parentheses mandatory in axis environments?
Assumed we have this little code snippet:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
date coordinates in = x,
table/col sep = semicolon,
date ZERO ...
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How to increase the vertical offset of exponent terms with increasing size of parentheses?
I want to be able to write the following expression:
But have not been able to do so, since all I can get is:
I do not use the fraction of P/E, but rather just the psi. Can you help?
EDIT: After ...
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Removing outer parenthesis in a diagram
When I try to remove the outer brackets in the following diagram, by removing the first occurrence of \begin{pmatrix} and the last occurrence of \end{pmatrix} I get the error misplaced alignment tab ...
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How can I get cleveref to surround references with parentheses automatically?
I use cleveref for in-document references, and find it to be clever. However, I typically want to refer to figures (for example) within parentheses. What I do now is this
\usepackage{cleveref}
...
X ...
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Parentheses between \big and \Big
Is there a way to create parentheses in math mode that have an extension between that of the commands \big (too small) and \Big (too big)? The amsmath package documentation defines the delimiters in ...
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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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How to deal with sentence-level parentheses ending equations?
Say you want to make a remark on-the-fly, which involves a formula too big to be put online, but this formula is supposed to end your sentence (as in, for instance, if we let
How do you deal with the ...
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Add parentheses if double superscript or double subscript
I've already got an answer for Add parentheses if double superscript. I want to go a step further as proposed below.
However lualatex complains of “missing $” when using the e{_}-type argument…
\...
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Problem redefining hat accent in eulerpx
I want to use eulerpx with the alternative hat accent provided by eulervm (via the euler-hat-accent option). To this end, I copied the relevant commands from eulervm.sty (see also this answer). The ...
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inverting fraction comes out different size [duplicate]
I think I get why the two parentheses/fractions here are not the same size:
\left(\frac{3}{p}\right)\left(\frac{p}{3}\right)
Screenshot from Mathjax website:
Presumably something about the baseline ...
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Grouping lines in cases and aligning them
I am reading an article, where I faced the following:
I want to write such a thing in LaTeX. Basically, this whole thing is in a bracket, every two lines are grouped and labeled together, and there ...
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Gauss brackets with double vertical lines [duplicate]
I would like to have commands for left- and right gauss brackets which have a double vertical line, but otherwise behave exactly like \lfloor and \rfloor. In particular, they should come in various ...
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Citation brackets using biblatex
I'm using biblatex for references and citations in my thesis.
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=alphabetic, citestyle=authoryear]{biblatex}
gives me the author name in the text, but I would like to ...
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Citation for an addendum in brackets, \citet vs \citep
With natbib (and bibtex) I have the option of using either \citet{foo2019} or \citeb{bar2019} and I think I'm pretty clear on their use. I.e. "as Foo (2019) has shown, ducks tend to quack" vs "...
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Problem with Big Curly Brackets in Overleaf
I am trying to make open a big curly bracket with 3 rows and 2 columns in it. This will be used in a Conference Paper that has 2 columns per page, so logically the wideness of each column is ...
