Comments on: how to add single-sided brackets in latex

By: chami

chami — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:16:56 +0000

Thanks

By: texluv

texluv — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:17:00 +0000

The \bigr( and \bigl) work great, exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

By: episanty

episanty — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:19:56 +0000

@Steffen:

one way to force the second line \right] to scale to the same size as the \left[ on the first line is to include somewhere on the second line a \vphantom{} with your largest command inside it, say
\vphantom{\sum_i^\infty}\right]

By: The Mom, PhD

The Mom, PhD — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:10:00 +0000

This is just what I’ve been looking for. Thanks for the tip!

By: Lawrence David

Lawrence David — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:51:05 +0000

thanks for that sweet tip lynn!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:37:26 +0000

You’ve all probably figured this out by now, but I was just struggling with the same problem and figured I’d add my 2 cents.
In order to get your brackets scaled properly you could try using \bigr], \Bigr], \biggr] or \Biggr] and choose the size that looks best.
Cheers!

By: Steffen

Steffen — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:38:17 +0000

The problem with this is that if you have an equation in which the second line does not include any large signs (like the large sigma in your case), this method will not work: The \right] will scale according to space used on the current line. E.g. if one (which I recently had) a really long integrand, this will not work. Im very interested to hear some kind of solution to this.

By: Peter I.

Peter I. — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:12:00 +0000

Thanks very much for the “right.” tip…exactly what I needed!

By: M.E.B.

M.E.B. — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:20:00 +0000

I gleaned the “right.” idea from your post which solved my problem of adding single-sided curly brackets into a LaTeX document I’m working on. Thanks.