Questions tagged [brackets]
{brackets} is about different brackets, their usage and functionality in (La)TeX.
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Added whitespace when putting brackets around fractions with splitfrac
I'm using splitfrac from mathtools to break up a particularly long line in the numerator of a fraction. When I put brackets around the fraction, however, they leave a line of whitespace in the ...
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Aligning underbraces in two different length terms [duplicate]
The code I have written currently is:
\begin{equation}
\label{eqn:fullwavefunction}
\psi\textbf{(r}) =\psi_s(\textbf{r}) + \phi(\textbf{r}) =\underbrace{e^{ikz}}_\text{incident wave} + \...
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Wrong position of superscript with colored brackets
Coloring the brackets changes the position of the superscript. How can I get the same position as in the right example with standard color brackets? I intend to use \left) and \right) for brackets to ...
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More aesthetic norms, absolute values, parentheses, etc
This is nothing too important, and I've decided to make all three questions into one because they are more or less related. Sometimes when I type math equations, I find them not as beautiful as I ...
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Threepart table footnotes with brackets
Currently the threeparttable displays the footnotes and references to footnotes as showed in following picture.
How can I configure treeparttable to display the reference to the footnote with [a], [b]...
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apa7 citing ref needed tex studio+ tried with biblatex and biber compiler + issue round brackets around not generated around references
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{report}
%=========================Preamble===================================
\usepackage{setspace} %for line spacing
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\...
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How did these below the numbers do it? [duplicate]
I saw this format in a paper. This is obviously not a picture. These numbers can be copied and pasted like other text. How is this done? Thanks.
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How to maintain large brackets in a split environment?
For example, I want to write
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\left\{ &ax + b =\\
& cx + d \right\}
\end{split}
\end{equation}
Latex tells me I annot split the brackets ...
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\underbrace inside brackets (dimension) [duplicate]
i'm writing an equation. I noticed that when I enter the \underbrace command, the square brackets increase their size giving an unpleasant visual result. could you suggest a solution?
\documentclass{...
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How do I correctly insert a curly bracket in a table cell
So I made a table in which I would like to have a curly bracket, containing three formulas in one cell. I managed to make one that look right in the pdf, tho I still get an error message.
So this is ...
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Automatic brackets size with \left(…\right) fails for \text{…} exponents
I noticed that the automatic adjustment size for parentheses by use of \left(...\right) "fails" in two cases I use a lot:
Case one:
When a upper index is set as \text{...}. I typeset label-...
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How to write equations on the left and brackets on the right side?
I'm looking forward to reproduce the following in my Latex document:
What would you recommend using for this?
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How to keep the size of the parenthesis in different lines when using multline? [duplicate]
I am using overleaf and I am trying to write the following equation into my main text but since it is longer than a line I have to break it into smaller parts and for that I am using the miltline. ...
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Square bracket indicating “A or B or C”
How can I write $A.B.C=0$ equivalent to $A=0$ or $B=0$ or $C=0$ in this form?
I am a newbie in latex. I would like to write an expression such as the following
How can I do that? Thank you very much!
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Big brackets multiple lines in LYX [duplicate]
Hey how can I do sth like this in Lyx? I think about these big brackets which are in different lines
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Problem with left & right parentheses in align [duplicate]
I'm trying to write down a formula using \left( and \right). On some formulas, this works totally fine (see Example 1). However, on others I get a to me not explainable error message (see Example 2).
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Put open and close brackets in document [closed]
In a Word document I have multiple lines of words one under the other, e.g.:
zignature puppy food
zignature small bites
zinger dog crate
zinger winger dog crate
I want them to automatically generate ...
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How to typeset this matrix equation using simple LaTeX tools
Here is the output I need:
The closest I could get is this:
\begin{equation*}
\begin{bmatrix}
& \\
v & \\
& \\
\end{bmatrix}
\begin{bmatrix}
w & \\
\end{bmatrix}...
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How can I insert a large curly bracket across multiple lines of text?
I am attempting to group multiple lines of text with a curly bracket that will have text centered on the right side of the bracket:
My current MWE does not include the bracket.
\documentclass{article}...
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Forest package and weird bracket behaviour
I am using forest package to write some algebra with planar trees. However, when I combine automatically sized brackets with my forest picture, the bracket size and position is completely wrong: it ...
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How to create a vertical brace in an aligned optimisation problem?
I am trying to create a vertical brace around particular constraints in an optimisation problem. A segment of my code is shown below
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
\underset{x_{ij}}{\text{minimise}}...
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LaTeX: how to get correct size/position of (nested) brackets around fractions
In the following example
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\x}%
{a = \left[%
\frac{b}%
{c + \left[ \frac de%
\right]%
...
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\hfill doesn't work for braces in mathmode
I want a right brace that spans a few lines of text and is located at the right-most side of page.\
Something like this :
Related : brackets - Adding a large brace next to a body of text
Here, the ...
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Correct size/position of nested brackets within fractions
How can I get the correct size/position of the brackets in all 4 "sections", not only in #2?
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
TEXT-1-A
$a = \left[ \frac{b}%
{c + \...
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Bracket sizing with \bigwedge and \substack
I've been trying to enclose a wedge with a substack of conditions in square brackets.
My original code was:
\left[\bigwedge_{\substack{j=1\\\text{where }i(j)=1}}^n e_j\right]
which produced:
This ...
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Is there a convention to use brackets instead of nesting parentheses? [closed]
This is something that I first noticed while reading some physics textbooks that are on the slightly older side. Many authors use brackets, and sometimes even braces, to avoid having nesting ...
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How to get rid of double Parentheses of the equation number
How to get rid of double Parentheses of the equation number, I appear like ((1)) , and I want it to be single like (1)
\usepackage{patches}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}
\...
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How to change brackets for this modified matrix?
I found this code here (stackexchange) and modified it for the matrix I needed to make. But I want to have thoses brackets[ ]. I tried to change blockarray for \left[ and \right]. Can anybody help me ...
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Curly brackets and Big O notation
I'm having some trouble inserting a Big O notation into a right-side curly bracket consisting of two lines. I'm using mathcal for the Big O notation but once I put it in the curly bracket it doesn't ...
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How do I typeset this piecewise function?
What is the LaTeX code for this? There is a solution about how to code the function part, but I could not find out how to make all that equal to f(x). Please ignore the semicolons in the piecewise ...
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Automatically increase spacing inside brackets
I find LaTeX's automatic spacing for a lot of common mathematical expressions to be extremely ugly, especially with respect to brackets. For example:
$f(x+a)$ and $\mathbf{P}(x=a)$ both have "x&...
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Equation with a symbol in three lines [duplicate]
I tried this
\begin{equation*}
\begin{cases}
\begin{tabular}{c|c}
$r_0=3.0000$ \\
$r_0^2=9.0000$
\end{tabular}
\end{cases}
\rho_0=2.76518\...
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Change brackets (parentheses) style
This might be a bit nitpicky of me, but I would like to replicate the following style of the brackets shown in the pictures below:
The code I used generates the equations that look like this:
The ...
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Inconsistent bracket sizes in a piecewise function
There are a number of similar questions to this one, but many of them suggest manually setting the size of my brackets. I would prefer not to do this, but if it is the only solution, I guess I will ...
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Latex bracket on multiple lines
How can I code the equations with big brackets on the right and left sides shown in the picture? Thank you for your help!
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Equally sized parantheses despite use of \left( … \right
I think my problem is rather simple but I cannot find the mistake here. I want to have several parantheses in an align environment, so I tried:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{...
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What's wrong? $GL(V):= \{V\in \mathbb{C}^n : \exists W\in \mathbb{C}^n , VW = WV = 1\}$
I used $GL(V)=: \{V\in \mathbb{C}^n : \exists W\in \mathbb{C}^n, VW = WV = 1\}$, which is to express
as highlighted.
But it sounds having errors, although it can compile. But I want to know is there ...
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Shorthand or simplified boolean expressions?
I have a lot of self-defined booleans and conditional statements, and have conditions like
\ifthenelse{\NOT \boolean{foo} \AND \NOT \boolean{bar} \AND \NOT \boolean{baz}}{...}{...}
I want a way to ...
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Problem with font and math environment
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,titlepage]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{mathtools} \mathtoolsset{showmanualtags}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{newpxtext,newpxmath}
\begin{document}\sloppy
\begin{align}
y=&...
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Brackets in equation environment are being ignored [closed]
My problem is that all parentheses within an equation environment are ignored in my resulting PDFs. I have no idea where the issue is but it must have something to do with the packages I'm loading.
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[numbers]{natbib} \citet: page number outside brackets
I am trying to make a document (article class) using natbib, plainnat.
The citation style I want for \citet is Author[#]:#page (e.g.: Debord [2]:102).
I tried the solution given here:
Natbib \citet ...
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Misplaced bracket with Hebrew text containing letter, digits and hyphen
When displaying a Hebrew text, containing letters, digits, and a hyphen - all of these inside brackets, the ending bracket is misplaced.
MWE (using XeLaTeX):
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{...
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Multirow and Two Lines in One Cell on Table
I have problems here is table that I will rewrite.
Then I write code like this:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
Tipe Opsi&CBBC&...
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Big Parenthesis with a Vertical Line in it
I need to type \big( but with a vertical line in it, either in the middle, or end-to-end (would prefer having both options). To clarify, I need something along the lines of \llparenthesis (package ...
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Vertical center alignment of text in cell of table
I am trying to create following table
But the problem is that the big round brackets in third column are sitting on the horizontal lines. Is there some way to center align the brackets vertically in ...
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How can I add multiple curly brackets over a list?
How can I add curly brackets like this?
This is so far my code....
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{enumerate}[label=(\alph*)]
\item Hello
\item Hi
\item Good-bye
\item Bye
\end{enumerate}
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Subscript, Superscript, and Bracket
I want to write like this:
But when I write
\documentclass{article} \usepackage{mathtools} \begin{document}
\begin{equation}
\lim\limits_{\Delta\rightarrow0}\Delta{}_{t=0}^{t=T}\left\vert\dfrac{df(t)...
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“Floor” brackets touching in cases [duplicate]
What is the nicest way to prevent the "floor brackets" from touching in this example?
\alpha=
\begin{cases}
\left\lfloor \frac{(a_1+b_1)^2}{4} \right\rfloor & x \\
\left\lfloor \frac{(...
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Latex can't run because it finds a bracket too many?
When I run Texworks, I get the issue saying that there should be a bracket too many in the paragraph that is marked with yellow. If I run it in overleaf, I get the same error, yet Overleaf is still ...
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How to fit parentheses (Guillemets) into a single line in LaTeX
I'm looking for a way to process parentheses so that they don't come at the end or beginning of a line.
The typography of parentheses in French (« ») doesn't like to isolate either of the parentheses ...
