Questions tagged [brackets]
{brackets} is about different brackets, their usage and functionality in (La)TeX.
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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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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}
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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 ...
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Table enclosed in curly brackets
I would like to enclose a table with curly brackets. I photoshopped an example here:
The MWE of the table is here, please feel free to add packages etc.
`
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{...
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A universal method for left-hand alignment of a sequence of equalities
With this code
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{mathtools, mathrsfs}
%% Code for '\widebar' macro is courtesy of
%% https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/60253
\makeatletter
\let\save@...
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Missing space after parenthesis in inline text
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstdefinestyle{General} {
basicstyle=\small\ttfamily,
breaklines=true
}
\lstset{style=...
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Brackets around blkarray are too big
This is a followup to this question.
MWE (given by Henri Menke in the linked post):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blkarray}
\begin{document}
\[
\left[
\begin{blockarray}{ccccccc}
\...
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brackets inside matrix / matrices inside a matrix
I would like to make something that looks like this:
I don't know how to get the brackets inside the matrix to line up in the right spots. I don't need them to be red; I just added that to emphasize ...
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Is there a way to remove extra space when using qtree?
Is there a way to remove the extra space in the example below? (That is, to make the square brackets smaller but in such a way that the whole tree still falls within the brackets)
Here is the code:
\...
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Kerning with parentheses
Given the MWE below, one can see that the spacing around the parentheses is rather awkward. The opening parenthesis is too close to \cos and \sin, and too far away from the \omega. The closing ...
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Rotated Curly Brackets Along Arrow (TikZ)
I am trying to do a diagram to show the nature of Principal Component Analysis. I have the following code, wherein I would like to have rotated curly brackets under the Principal Component Vectors to ...
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A chain of inequalities with words - aligned
How would one write this in TeX? I tried basic align techniques, but one also needs to align the words inside the brackets on the right-hand side and for me it does strange things.
Thanks!
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How to type these special brackets in latex in text mode?
LEFT BLACK LENTICULAR BRACKET (U+3010): 【
RIGHT BLACK LENTICULAR BRACKET (U+3011): 】
LEFT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET (U+3016): 〖
RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET (U+3017): 〗
LEFT WHITE TORTOISE SHELL ...
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Maths Equation Formatting - Brackets [duplicate]
Does anyone know how you would type this in latex?
Thank you!
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Citing twice the same paper in LaTeX (with Biber)
I'm using LaTeX to write my Masters thesis, and I have some issue with the bibliography. I'm using Biber and the style bath.
I have a paper (for now, but will probably have more in the same case) ...
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Making brackets around a function larger
In my project I want to define e as a limit and have the following
$$\lim_{x\to\infty} {(1+\frac{1}{n})^n}$$
but the brackets don't line up properly, the curved brackets don't go around the entire ...
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How to get uneven size/space of numerator and denominator in fraction enclosed by \left\{ and \right} brackets
The following code gives a large amount of space under the denominator, enclosed by the left and right brackets, \left{ and \right}:
U_{ij}^{\mathrm{tor}}(\mathbf{\hat{r}}_{ij},\mathbf{\Omega}_i,\...
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But how to align the equality sign $=$ balanced?
See the following latex keywords
\[\left\{\begin{matrix}
A=B \\ C=D
\end{matrix}\right.\]
This shows the two array as column wise in center part.
But how to align the equality sign $=$ balanced?
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How to align numbers in parentheses
This code aligns the 4 and the -3 roughly centered, i.e., the 4 is centered above the -3. I would like the 4 and the 3 to be perfectly vertically aligned, with the negative sign out to the left and ...
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Unstandardized brackets in matrix
I wonder how to solve my problem.
In 'normal' matrix we have a square brackets but I need to write a brackets like in photo
Could you help me?
I'm using \usepackage{amsmath}.
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Macros \dv and \pdv eat the subsequent parenthesis argument
The physics package has the macros \dv and \pdv which are great but I have a small problem with them.
If an argument with parenthesis included right after them they eat the whole argument. If there ...
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Big Parenthesis in Latex
So you know how this code:
$(\frac{1}{2})$
produces small parenthesis. How would I get bigger parenthesis?
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In-prose bracket styling
For stylistic reasons, I would like to ensure that parentheses use different characters for each level of nesting:
([{}]).
I would like this to be upheld in the main body (as well as citations, ...
