Text Formatting ⇒ Brace to cover multi-line Text

[herath]

Hi,

I am a new LaTeX user. At the moment I am writing a lab report and I am facing a problem that I could not find an answer to, even after searching for about an hour.

I want to create a brace as in the following illustration but I can not find a way to do it.

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I hope to get some help and I am sorry If I have posted in the wrong forum and have violated any rules.


Thanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

there are different ways. Here's one, with tabular and auto-sizing braces with \left and \right:

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
$\left.
    \begin{tabular}{lll}
      Text line one \\
      Text line two \\
      Text line three \\
    \end{tabular}
  \right\} = $ Text
\end{document} 

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Stefan

[herath]

Hi,
Thank you both for the fast replies. I would like the normal typeset over italics in the Math mode. And Stefan has already given the answer which will achieve what I am trying to do.

{I am from Sri Lanka and most of the people at the bachelors level haven't even heard about Latex. I am switching from MS Word to Latex for report writing.)

And thanks again for the welcome!.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Very good decision - LaTeX is much better for scientific documents.

Stefan