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hendrikwout
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brackets too high when having 'big' exponent

Post by hendrikwout »

I want to make a latex output of:

\dfrac{\partial}{\partial x} \left(
e^{\left(-\dfrac{A}{x}\right)}\right)
= \dfrac{A}{x^2}e^{\left(-\dfrac{A}{x}\right)}

But it looks like the outer brackets are too deep at the bottom. anyone knows how to improve the output?

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localghost
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brackets too high when having 'big' exponent

Post by localghost »

Source code has to be formatted with the code environment of the forum. This keeps a post clear and legible.

Please post full examples and not only useless code snippets. For a better look of the exponents you can use the nicefrac package. Then the problem vanishes.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{nicefrac}

\begin{document}
  \[
    \frac{\partial}{\partial x}\,\left[ e^{\left(-\nicefrac{A}{x}\right)}\right] = \frac{A}{x^2}\,e^{\left(-\nicefrac{A}{x}\right)}
  \]
\end{document}
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