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Adaptive parentheses in the definition of a command: how to avoid odd space
I'm trying to improve a command with adaptive parentheses, but I don't know how to avoid an unexpected blank space between the operator and the first parenthesis.
I already had a problem with this ...
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Conditional macros
Goal: I would like to have a macro that substitutes different commands depending in whether in displayed math mode or not. In particular, it should generate fixed-size angular brackets in text lines, \...
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Custom \big command
I have a lot of equations with double parenthesis and I want the outside one to be bigger. I've been using:
\big(w(B)\big)
which gives me this result
But my obsession was killing me, I didn't like ...
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Why I get brackets different in the size?
I typed
\begin{gather*}
\frac1{1-x}\sum_{n=1}^\infty\left[H_n^3-3H_nH_n^{(2)}+2H_n^{(3)}-\left(H_n-
\frac1n\right)^3\right.\\
\left.+3\left(H_n-\frac1n\right)\left(H_{n}^{(2)}-\frac1{n^2}\right)-2\...
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Define a command with arguments that have a behaviour if called without arguments
It is possible to define a command like \Sign that would work the following way?
\Sign do \mathsf{Sign}
\Sign{foo} do \mathsf{Sign}\left(foo\right)
I specifically want this for functions: the ...
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Diminishing size of nested brackets
I'm writing in a notation that uses lots of nested brackets, e.g. [[], [[]], [[], []]]
This easily gets difficult to read and is a lot more readable when written like $\Bigl[ \bigl[ \bigr], \bigl[ [], ...
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newcommand with option for bracket size
I want to write a new command for the trace of a matrix that I've defined like:
\newcommand{\trace}[1]{\mathsf{trace}\!\left[#1\right]}
but when I call
\trace{A^\top}
the automatic scaling makes the [...
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LaTeX command with optional argument to enclose parameter in parenthesis
I want to define the following LaTeX command
\newcommand{\cost}[1][]{
\ifthenelse{\isempty{#1}}
{c_N}
{c_N((#1))}
}
where the parameter #1 is enclosed in parenthesis ( ) in the output. ...
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Suggestions to align vertically derivates and partial derivates
For my book I have this MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath}
\begin{document}
Sapendo che $\xi=\xi(x,t)\in Y_{00}$,
\[\left[\xi\frac{\partial f^{0}}{\partial \...
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Interaction of \left and \right with \ifthenelse
Purpose
I want a function that surrounds an expression in \left and \right brackets, where the shape of the bracket is given as a parameter, e.g.
\brackets[(][]]{\frac{1}{2}} % should return \left(\...
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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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Automatically add Parentheses to \cos, \sin, \log, ecc. , allowing subscripts
I'm sorry if the title suggests a question that has been asked a lot of times (see below), but I couldn't find an answer that also fulfills another need...
As a math teacher, I want my students to ...
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\big parenthesis not much bigger than simple parenthesis in 11pt font [duplicate]
I frequently use simple and larger parenthesis in math mode, like what is shown in the MWE below:
\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,twoside]{book}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{...
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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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Biblatex field venue+eventdate without round brackets
I am looking for a solution to remove the round brackets in the reference list for the type @inproceedings. The original version is like:
As you can see, the venue+eventdate has round brackets around ...
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