Math & Science ⇒ Auto Sizing Brackets

[porkedpie]

Is it theoretically possible to use

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\left{ \right}
\left[ \right]

or does this auto sizing only work with round parenthises?

Regards.

[localghost]

What keeps you from just trying out? Your machine won't explode. Apart from the fact that the first line will show exactly nothing (but perhaps cause errors) it works with every delimiter. That's what every basic documentation about LaTeX will tell you.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[porkedpie]

Oh dear, wrong side of bed?

Thanks, I had tried it but kept getting errors, so I wanted to check it was possible. All the documentation I have seen only mentions \left( and \right)


Thank.

[torbjorn t.]

Try

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\left\{   \right\}

Note backslash before the braces.

[localghost]

Oh dear, wrong side of bed? […]

No. Just came across a RTFM question.

[porkedpie]

Thank you torbjorn
I just discovered the extra slash needed myself - seems poorly documented.

[frabjous]

Thank you torbjorn
I just discovered the extra slash needed myself - seems poorly documented.

Poorly documented? { and } without slashes are used everywhere for grouping in the source in LaTeX and not to insert brackets into the output. This is either the first thing, or almost the first thing, mentioned in every LaTeX guide in existence. The only excuse for not knowing it could be never having used LaTeX before, in which case, do look the resources for beginners thread.