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julianinblack
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Math Mode Font Size too small at certain Places

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Hi everybody,

I have a problem with my equations. For information, I am using Lyx. The problem is that in the 'cases' environment (basically it's juste an array with a parenthesis), the size of the police is automatically fitted (I think it's just like for a normal equation in fact). It means that if I write a fraction with for example a square root and then inside another fraction, the final letters will be so small that you can barely read it (this is the 'scriptscriptstyle' size). I think it's a general problem, but I haven't find any information about that. So, I would like to disable this automatic fit, so that all the letters in my formula are written in the 'displaystyle' size, even if there is a very complicated formula with fractions etc.
Thanks.

Julian

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julianinblack
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Math Mode Font Size too small at certain Places

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Here is an answer ...
http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... f=5&t=1792
The only problem is that the size of subscripts and exponents will be affected directly by it, because for a \displaystyle size text, the subscript will be \scriptstyle size. Any solution ?
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Stefan Kottwitz
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Math Mode Font Size too small at certain Places

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Hi Julian,

welcome to the board!

You could use the command \displaystyle, you could also repeat it within nested expressions:

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$\displaystyle\frac{x}{\displaystyle\frac{y}{\sqrt{2}}}$
This causes \displaystyle to be called for each inline expression, still you would have to call it in nested expressions:

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\everymath{\displaystyle}
Stefan
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