Questions tagged [brackets]
{brackets} is about different brackets, their usage and functionality in (La)TeX.
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How to write a function (piecewise) with bracket outside?
How to write this Piecewise function using LaTeX?
I tried
$
\begin{array}{cc}
\{ &
\begin{array}{cc}
0 & x\leq 0 \\
\frac{100-x}{100} & 0\leq x\leq 100 \\
0 & ...
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Spacing around \left and \right
Why does the addition of a \left and \right introduces an extra space around the formula? Specifically, why do $\cos(\theta)$ and $\cos\left(\theta\right)$ render differently?
Is there a way to use ...
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"(" or "\left(" parentheses?
What is the difference between ( and \left( in LaTeX? Sometimes, when the content is small, it does not seem to matter which pair I use.
What is the best practice when it comes to which parentheses ...
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Adding a large brace next to a body of text
I'm writing a short document listing some chronological events. I want to pick out a period with a big brace. Here's a quick mockup:
What's the best way to do this? Can I set the size declaratively - ...
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Using square bracket in text mode
I would like to include text like the following in a latex document [2007] EWCA Civ 1042.
Unfortunately if I use \[2007\] EWCA Civ 1042 the number within the square brackets is typeset on a separate ...
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Is it ever bad to use \left and \right?
For mathematics, is it ever disadvantageous to use \left( and \right) in equations?
I can't see any way that doing this would hinder the typesetting, so why isn't () just converted into \left( \...
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Automatic left and right commands
Is it possible to automatically "add" \left and \right commands in front of all brackets? The source code should be left intact, but LaTeX should interpret every pair of brackets as if they were ...
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Enumerated list with square brackets
I want to make an enumerated list in the following format:
[1] foo foo
[2] foo foo
...
How I can do that using enumerated lists? I have tried the following:
\begin{enumerate}[\left[ 1 \right]]
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How to have overlapping under-braces and over-braces
I am trying to typeset an equation that has overlapping over and under braces as per the image below:
I have managed to typeset it using a sort of a hack, by typing the equation twice, once using \...
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Biblatex, author-year, square brackets
I need to customize the author-year citation in biblatex for a template at work. Right now biblatex cites like this:
Ruschmeyer u. a. 1995, S. 123
They way I was told it needs to cite is:
[...
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Difference between \big[ and \bigl[
What is the difference between \big[ (or equivalently \big() and \bigl[? Is it always necessary to mention l (left) and r (right)?
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big angle brackets
I know that \langle and \rangle creates left and right angle brackets. But they don't seem to adopt to the size of the expression inside. For example, if I have a big matrix, I would like to angle ...
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Square brackets in math mode without the bracket symbols
Is there a way to typeset a square bracket without using the symbols [ and ]?
What I am looking for is like \vert instead of |.
Motivation is a need for a workaround in using LaTeX formulas inside ...
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How can I get an underbrace and an overbrace to partially overlap in an equation?
Sometimes I want to describe portions of an equation using \underbrace and \overbrace in such a way that the portions are not completely distinct, for example:
/-------\
x = A + B + C + D + E
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How do I label different rows or columns of a matrix using braces?
I have a matrix enclosed in brackets [ ] (or (), or {}, or |'s, or ||'s):
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| e f g h |
| i j k l |
- m n o p -
which I want to label like so:
R
|---|
-- - a b c d -...
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\overbrace and \underbrace with square bracket
I'm trying to put a nice square bracket over a complex text, it should look like an \overline but with ending like
\ulcorner and \urcorner.
The presence of \overrightarrow and \overleftarrow makes me ...
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Tall curly brace
I would like to put a tall (long) left curly bracket on the left side of the following:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\noindent
c: $\{$1, ..., n$\}$ $\rightarrow$ $\{$1, ..., n$\}$,...
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Align large vertical delimiters (brackets) to rows of a table?
I’m trying to typeset a table of data, with brackets (i.e. }) at the right-hand side to show a classification of the rows. Something like:
-----------------------
| Aardvark | Armenia | \
|--------...
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Deep Brackets Around a Text
What I'm trying to achieve is to get the following effect for a body of text:
I've looked at many examples that use all sort of brackets, but none of them look like the ones above. So far, I've only ...
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Escaping square braces [closed]
I want to use some text as the optional parameter to some command. The text includes square braces ([ and ]), but since the optional parameter goes within square brackets, unexpected things happen.
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Vertically asymmetric size variation for parentheses
One of the difficulties I have with writing formulas in LaTeX is that the standard sizing tools for the variable-size operators (parentheses, etc.) do not account for "high" symbols and "low" symbols ...
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What is the correct way to do delimiters?
I've always used \left and \right with my delimiters, but Martin Heller's answer to another question indicates that this method gives incorrect spacing. The correction appears to be prepending \...
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\bordermatrix with brackets [ ] instead of parentheses ( )
I have the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
$
M = \bordermatrix{~ & x & y \cr
A & 1 & 0 \cr
B & 0 & 1 \cr}
$
\end{document}
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Universal Parentheses
I know it's a bit of an odd request but it is one to which the solution would save me a lot of time.
I write a lot of documents in LaTex (especially maths - no surprise) and I prefer the look of
$\...
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Lyx: Quick way to insert Dirac bra-ket
In LyX, what is a quick way to insert mismatched delimiters in math environment?
I tried typing \left|\right>, but it is not interpreted automatically.
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How to remove box outlines around parenthesis/brackets in TexStudio?
As can be seen on the first image there are outlines around the brackets and parenthesis (blue and red colored), on the second picture is shown what happens to these outlines if I move away to another ...
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Brackets in first column in table give "Missing number, treated as zero" error [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Error with table
I'm writing a table with 4 columns and 1 row. The first column starts with a bracket. It compiles without issues:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\...
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Curly brace to insert something into an equation? Like an inverted underbrace
I have a generic equation, into which I want to "insert" something so that the reader can see what I inserted into the equation and at which point.
E.g.
\documentclass{plain}
\begin{document}
\[ f =...
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Angle brackets in non-math-mode text
Is there a way to directly input angle brackets into text without resorting to math-mode symbols?
I'd like to correctly indicate orthography in a linguistics paper, and have been resorting to single ...
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Indicating matching brackets/parentheses in TeX output
I often have cause to typeset things like this in TeX:
When reading expressions like the one above, it's very difficult to tell which brackets match each other. I'd like to be able to define variants ...
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Easily change behavior of \DeclarePairedDelimiter [duplicate]
After seeing the answer to this question I realized that I preferred the way of working of Juan A. Navarro's answer:
I.e., \DeclarePairedDelimiter{\parens}{\lparen}{\rparen} from mathtools is a great ...
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Curly brackets don't show. [closed]
I'm typing in LaTeX on a Linux machine (Ubuntu) using Emacs (for typing and compiling). If I type (in mathematical environment)
\left\{blah blah\right\}
I don't see any brackets at all.
If I type
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How do I remove parentheses from theorem optional argument?
This is a MWE:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsfonts, amsthm, amsmath, amssymb}
\theoremstyle{definition}
\newtheorem{Theorem}{Theorem}[section]
\newtheorem*{Pythagorean theorem}{...
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Diagonal brace with nested parenthesis
I would to obtain a result similar to the image below.
So far I only have \bigg( \Big( \big( a^q \big)^q \Big)^{\rotatebox{25}{$\cdots$}} \bigg)^q, without the brace.
I tried to follow this question,...
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How can one put a "[" after \item?
The following does not compile because of the [ after the \item. I presume it is because LaTeX expects a ] as per the \item[option] syntax. However, I just want to insert the [ character into the text ...
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Which way of using parentheses looks better?
I feel like the parentheses look strange here:
\begin{equation}
uv=4\left(\frac{a}{2}\right)^2\left(\frac{b}{2}\right)^2=
4\left(\frac{s}{2}\right)^2\left(\frac{t}{2}\right)^2
\end{equation}
Do ...
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How do I specify a round parenthesis below some text?
I need something similar to \underbrace but instead of curly brackets, I would like to have normal round horizontal paranthesis below my text. Similar to \textbottomtiebar but spanning the whole text.
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How can I define a command that uses round parentheses around its arguments?
I defined a command for probability distributions, for example:
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{xstring}
\DeclarePairedDelimiterX{\RoundBrackets}[1]{(}{)}{#1}
\newcommand{\p}[1]{\RoundBrackets{\...
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Angle brackets with an underset arrow
I am trying to make a pair of angle brackets of variable height enclosing a main box along with a box beneath each bracket and an arrow of variable length between these lower boxes. Since I'm sure ...
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Inline row vectors with smallmatrix
I typeset inline column vectors with the smallmatrix environment from the amsmath package:
$\left(\begin{smallmatrix}a\\b\end{smallmatrix}\right)$
Unfortunately, when I do the same with row vectors ...
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No natural log parentheses when typesetting
How can I insert parentheses around the content of the natural log? I want my document to show
ln(x+1)
but the code
\ln{x+1}
or
\ln(x+1)
or
\ln \left( x+1 \right)
will not produce this.
Edit:
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How do I get function argument parenthesis to position correctly?
I'm having trouble with the appearance of parentheses representing function arguments. They appear to far away from the function name.
For example the code
\left(1-f_{p}\left(l+1\right)\right)\...
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Bracket in math and text
When I write the pair (x,y) with Latex, which way is correct: ($x,y$) or $(x,y)$? Thanks in advance.
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Big brackets around Text
I want to create a big single curly bracket over a paragraph of text. I will be using this for many, many paragraphs. I want to make it left and/or right idented. This is for a conversational styled ...
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How to escape "]" in a description's item tag?
In a description like
\begin{description}
\item[\texttt{DoSomething(items[])}:]
...
\end{description}
, how do I escape the "]" character?
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How do I type a single bracket? [duplicate]
How do you produce a single bracket in LaTeX? I just want to insert a " [ " without closing the bracket. Is there a way to do this?
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Import curly brackets from MathDesign (Utopia)
I am using Fourier maths fonts with Utopia text (\usepackage{fourier}) for a book project, but I'm not satisfied with the curly brackets \{ and \}. They are too slim, and barely distinguishable from ...
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