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Using square bracket in text mode
You don't escape square brackets in LaTeX if you want them typeset. \[ and \] are basically synonyms for \begin{displaymath} and \end{displaymath}, (or \begin{equation*} and \end{equation*} with ...
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How to remove box outlines around parenthesis/brackets in TexStudio?
I found the answer myself. These boxes are called placeholders. They can be removed by going to Options > Configure TexStudio. Then on the bottom left check Show Advanced Options. Go to the Completion ...
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Bracket in math and text
The purpose of LaTeX is to make a distinction between the content (here the writing of a pair) and the rendering (the font size, the shape (bold, italic, etc.), the indentation, etc.). You code the ...
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Using square bracket in text mode
If [ and ] are causing trouble, just switch them out for \lbrack and \rbrack.
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Universal Parentheses
Making ( active is not really a solution because it is used in so many other ways, but here is how it would be done.
To help in this regard. I create \pactive to make ( active which, if used inside a ...
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Square bracket indicating "A or B or C"
Here is a solution that allows any number of choices for the bracket:
The call for this output is \orbrace[.5]{A=0,B=0,C=0,D=0}
The command \orbrace takes 2 arguments, one optional. The optional .5 ...
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How to remove box outlines around parenthesis/brackets in TexStudio?
The boxes are placeholders. You can navigate between them using Ctrl+Left/Right.
They vanish, if you type over them e.g. if the cursor is before a closing bracket placeholder ), typing ) will move ...
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Why should I “enclose the previous parenthesis with ‘{}’”?
Apparently, the developer of chktex advises to always do something like
{(a+b)}^2
which is not what's normally done. There's no need for it and the output is very disputable in typographic terms: ...
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Tall curly brace
Although the cases environment probably suits your needs best, I'd like to mention the more versatile and (probably) equivalent syntax \left\{ <blank> \right\}for future use, in case you haven't ...
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Universal Parentheses
An easy solution would just be to use the qty command from the physics package. Here's a MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{physics}
\begin{document}
With \texttt{qty}:
\[
\qty(m_{\frac\alpha\...
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Big Bracket for equations
Add \left( and \right., but using equation and aligned:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation}
\left(
\begin{aligned}
\frac{dS_d}{dt}&= A + \lambda_dR_d +...
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Why do \left( \frac{a}{b} \right) and \left( \frac{b}{a} \right) have different sizes?
To see why this is the case, consider looking at the bounding box associated with the resulting \frac (or the numerator/denominator):
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\fboxsep}{-\...
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Automatic left and right commands
To make auto-sized bracketing as painless and concise as possible, here's what I do:
\usepackage{mathtools}
\DeclarePairedDelimiter\autobracket{(}{)}
\newcommand{\br}[1]{\autobracket*{#1}}
Example:...
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How to write a function (piecewise) with bracket outside?
I think that in this case also the use of dcases can be recommended.
It can be found in the mathtools package.
Someone may prefer to have the arguments of the cases environment to be typeset in ...
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Square brackets instead of curvy brackets
There are many expanding delimiters available in TeX/LaTeX; the main ones are (round) parentheses, (square) brackets and braces. The only problematic ones among them are the braces, because { and } ...
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Macros \dv and \pdv eat the subsequent parenthesis argument
The package physics abuses the possibilities afforded by xparse to define commands having very weird syntax.
For instance, if you want to typeset the standard \frac{dx}{dt}, you have to type
\dv{x}{...
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Diagonal brace with nested parenthesis
Very easy with horizontal brace; somewhat less easy with rotated brace. I have no time right now to implement a general solution, so I'll go with a brute-force version for now.
\documentclass{article}
...
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Curly braces with subscript and superscript
The subscript and the superscript should be below and [above] the ends of the right curly brace.
Something like this?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath} % for "\overunderset" ...
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lbrack, rbrack vs [ and ]
LaTeX defines these via
\def\lbrack{[}
\def\rbrack{]}
so there is no difference in behaviour. However the command forms can be used on keyboard layouts that make [] inconvenient. They can also bee ...
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How to insert curly bracket in multirow table
The bigdelimpackage, which comes with multirow is designed for this sort of things. I added some improvements of the table with makecell and booktabs:
\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage{...
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Unstandardized brackets in matrix
I guess you're looking for \left\lceil and \right\rfloor.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath} % for 'matrix' environment
\begin{document}
\[
\left\lceil
\begin{matrix}
a_1 & a_2 & \...
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Environment aligned doesn't output first part in bracket
Update Jan. 2021. The current version of the amsmath package, 2020/09/23 v2.17i, no longer generates the problem described in the OP's query. Hence, taking "precautions" such as inserting a \...
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Omit round brackets around equation numbers with cleveref
Using \creflabelformat as follows
\creflabelformat{equation}{#2\textup{#1}#3}
helps.
\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{cleveref}
% see: https://tex....
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Equation caption format: Strange parenthesis?
Here it is, with the \newtagform command from mathtools:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\renewcommand{\theequation}{\Alph{equation}}
\newtagform{...
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Why is the "4" missing, even in the PDF?
I suppose you're trying to obtain that \underbracket doesn't add spacing in the multiplications, and you want some negative math kerning. Here's how to do it. You'll probably have to make some ...
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Unstandardized brackets in matrix
It makes sense to define new environments for this task:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\newmatrix}[3]{% #1 = prefix, #2/#3 = left/right delimiters
\...
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Which fields have to be {braced} or "quoted" in .bib files (why does year NOT have to be)?
A great documentation for everything BibTeX is Nicolas Markey's Tame the BeaST. (The more official documentation at https://ctan.org/pkg/bibtex is a bit lacking for most because it assumes knowledge ...
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Latex bracket on multiple lines
This works because stackengine can set equations with fixed baselineskip.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabstackengine,amsmath}
\TABstackMath
\stackMath
\begin{document}
\[
%\setstackgap{L}{1.1\...
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