- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 00:30:24 +0100
- To: <www-math@w3.org>
On 30/08/2015 21:21, Neil Soiffer wrote:
> You are indeed right and I'm wrong. For whatever reason, the \big (and
> \bigg) versions of those characters produce very different looking
> characters than the non-stretched ones in LaTeX.
>
> So I agree with David's original suggestion for the values.
they are just available in large sizes as the texbook makes it fairly
clear they are just there as an artefact of the construction of large
braces, placing the pieces together in different combinations.
the TeXBook says:
\danger ......
You can also use ^|\lgroup| and ^|\rgroup|,
which are constructed from braces without the middle parts; and
^|\lmoustache| and ^|\rmoustache|, ^^{moustaches}
which give you the top and bottom halves of large braces. For example,
here are the |\Big| and |\bigg| versions of....
David
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