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Peder
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underbrace

Post by Peder »

What to do if the notes corresponding to the underbrace is too ''wide'', so they split up the equation.

\underbrace{not wide}_{very wide}

The result is that the equation is sort of streched with some spaces between the synbols, which I want to get rid of. It does not work to do linebreak tough it conserns a matrix, that is too wide.

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Last edited by Peder on Fri Jun 03, 2011 11:05 am, edited 1 time in total.

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frabjous
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underbrace

Post by frabjous »

Consider using something like the \mathclap from the mathtools package, e.g.:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\begin{document}
\[
a+ \underbrace{bcd}_{\mathclap{somethinglong}} + e
\]
\end{document}
mathclap.png
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Peder
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Re: underbrace

Post by Peder »

Thank you, excaktly what I was looking for, made my day :)

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