Questions tagged [brackets]
{brackets} is about different brackets, their usage and functionality in (La)TeX.
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How can I get items in my bibliography listed with square brackets?
I would like to use square brackets for citations in the text and in the bibliography.
I figured out how to adapt the citations in the text, but I just don't find any way how to change the appearance ...
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Brackets in citing-style? [duplicate]
I have the following LaTeX code:
\documentclass[a4paper,
12pt,
bibliography=totoc,
index=totoc,
abstracton,
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lazy latex: how use '^' and '_' without mapping argument in parenthesis
For e.g. take
$G^\times$
here we do not need to write the curly parenthesis, as in
$G^{\times}$
What is it that one has to add to a newly declared command, e.g.
\newcommand{\foo}{\ensuremath \...
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LaTeX Scale Adjacent Terms' Grouping Symbols Together
I have two adjacent terms in a LaTeX equation, and I'd like the brackets around both to scale to the height of both terms.
For example \left[ a \right] \left[ \frac{b}{c} \right] generates:
I'd like ...
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Tikz Braces On Top of Image [duplicate]
I am trying to produce the following result:
I've never placed tikz objects on images. Any help would be appreciated.
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Replacing brackets with parentheses for \textcite, Biblatex numeric-comp [duplicate]
I'm trying to modify the numeric-comp style so in-text citations appear with parentheses rather than brackets for both \cite and \textcite i.e. [1] becomes (1) and Smith et al. [1] becomes Smith et al....
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What is "! paragraph ended before \align was complete"?
The following is the piece of code that was working right before I made a few small minor changes.
\begin{align}
\langle \prod_{i=1}^{n} \delta_i ^{n_i} y^{m_i}_i \rangle
= \sum _ {a_{i=1...n} = 0}...
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Error typesetting large bracket with multiple lines
I was following a Wikibooks section to create multiple lines within a single large bracket. Something like this.
The problem is that when I type in the given code, which is
\[
u(x) =
\begin{cases}...
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When to use `\left(` and when plain `(`? [duplicate]
This is basically a follow-up to the comments on this answer which I couldn't find to be settled anywhere. I learned that you can write ordinary bracket simply using
f(x)
but that you can also use
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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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Changing biblatex footcite style to use square brackets around the citation
I am supposed to use a certain citation style which has the citations in footnotes and square brackets around the references, just like "regular" citations in text (see screenshot).
I can't however, ...
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How can I obtain brackets with proper size on multiple lines using the {multline} environment?
My code is of the form
\begin{multline}
\left[ \frac{foo}{bar} \\ foo \right]
\end{multline}
This code gives an error for missing \right. etc. To remedy this, I used this code
\begin{multline}
\...
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How can I add square brackets for the authoryear biblatex bibliography style?
Due to some university requirements, I redefined the biblatex citesytle authoryear to use square brackets instead of round parentheses. Now I am trying to achieve the same for the bibstyle.
My ...
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How to get the square brackets that are involved in integration working
The clearest way to clearly show what I want is using an example:
I am looking for the Latex syntax that gives me the stuff on the right-hand side of the equation.
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