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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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Change spacing in a fraction with parentheses?
I have the exponential function that I wrote as:
\begin{equation}
e^{\left(\frac{R_G^2\cdot q^2}{3}\right)}
\end{equation}
which appears as:
and I don't like the spacing in particular the ...
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Spacing and brackets [duplicate]
I know this is a duplicate but I can't find the original post.
Square brackets do not display with the correct spacing around = or \cong.
For example :
$[0,1[ \cong [a,b[ \hspace{5ex} ]0,1] \cong ]a,b]...
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Spacing of parentheses in pmatrix
Commonly, we type matrices as \begin{pmatrix} ... \end{pmatrix}. However, pmatrix is restricted to at most 10 columns. If the matrix has more, we get an error ! Extra alignment tab has been changed to ...
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Adjust space in front of opening bracket
How can I globally reduce the space in front of the opening bracket, i.e. between M and [? I have to set the brackets with \left[ and \right]. I know that I individually can insert a negative space by ...
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is there a way in preamble to modify/reduce the white space between letter followed by closed parenthesis ( and )?
For me, I think Latex puts too much space between the function name and its arguments when using \left( and \right) compared to just ( and ). I'd like to get same space as with the second case.
The ...
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Horizontal spacing of math operator and parenthesis
Take the following code for example,
\documentclass[]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation}
\exp x
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\exp (x)
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\exp \...
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Best practice to handle math Brackets and Parentheses
I was wondering if there is already available a short reply to the best practices about using brackets in math mode. For instance, when should I use (, instead of any of the following: \left(,\left(.,\...
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Roots and spacing: symmetrical brackets [closed]
I have this simple MWE,
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{mathtools,amssymb}
\usepackage{geometry}
\begin{document}
\begin{...
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Weird spacing around large brackets in Plain TeX
I use Plain TeX on a daily basis and a frequent annoyance when typesetting large displays is weird spacing that occurs around bigger parentheses/braces/etc. For example, here is \exp(-x) with the five ...
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Creating some horizontal space between equations and Right Brace
I tried using the following Right Brace type:
$$\begin{rcases}
a &= b + c \\
d &= e + f + g \\
h &= i + j + k + l
\end{rcases}$$
But I have noticed that the brace is too close to ...
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How to write a vertically centered dot between brackets with less space?
I want to write a dot between brackets, but I want it to be:
Vertically centered, like using $(\cdot)$
With the same space between the dot and the brackets as if I wrote $(.)$
That is, I want ...
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unexplained space in math mode (left/right brackets, vphantom)
I'm currently writing a small tool which automatically generates latex code for equations. I stumbled over the following problem, which in extremely boiled-down form looks like this:
\begin{align*}
a
&...
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\left \right give inproper vertical spacing in fouriernc font
Here is a minimalist example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fouriernc}
\begin{document}
$\mathbb{E} [x \mid y ] $
\end{document}
The result looks like this:
But if I use \left and \right, i.e.,...
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Can I reduce the spacing between a function and a big paren to that between it and normal parens? [duplicate]
So if I want to apply some function to a big and complex expression, I'd like to use \left( \right) because it scales the parentheses to match the expressions height. However, when doing this, extra ...
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