Math & Science ⇒ How to reduce the size of a matrix ?

[akshay_ka]

The width of the matrix is too large to fit to the text length.
Any solution available to resize the matrix or reduce column width ??
I have used the following code and i don't want to change \[ \begin{bmatrix}.... \end{bmatrix} \].

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\[
$ \indices{^{i-1}_i}T $ = \begin{bmatrix}
$\cos \theta _i$ & -$\sin \theta _i$ & 0 & $a_{i-1}$ \\
$\sin \theta _i$ $\cos \alpha _{i-1}$ & $\cos \theta _i$ $\cos \alpha _{i-1}$ & -$\sin \alpha _{i-1}$ & -$d_i \sin \alpha _{i-1}$ \\
$\sin \theta _i$ $\sin \alpha _{i-1}$ & $\cos \theta _i$ $\sin \alpha _{i-1}$ & $\cos \alpha _{i-1}$ & $d_i \sin \alpha _{i-1}$ \\
0 & 0 & 0 & 1
\end{bmatrix}
\]

Thank you.

[Bartman]

The example is incomplete and should result in error messages due to the unnecessary flood of dollar signs.

You can reduce the font size of the matrix limited by a group and/or adjust the command \arraycolsep to lower the column spacing.

[akshay_ka]

The example is incomplete and should result in error messages due to the unnecessary flood of dollar signs.

You can reduce the font size of the matrix limited by a group and/or adjust the command \arraycolsep to lower the column spacing.

The code is incomplete, yes. But, there is no error in using $ signs. It is required in my case.

The code should output the matrix as you see in the image.
But, this matrix is too wide in length.
I need the matrix size to be aligned with the sentence length (see the image).

I cannot use other commands because i need to represent matrix in square brackets

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\begin{bmatrix}

The letter "b" is the key in {bmatrix} to get square brackets in output.

Any solution for this now ??

Thanks.