Math & Science ⇒ Putting headings in matrices

[MadEgg]

Hi all

I want to put a matrix in my LaTeX document, but I want to label each row and each column AND put brackets around the contents of the matrix. Something like this:

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       col1  col2
row1 /  a     b  \
row2 \  c     d  /

Here row1, row2, col1 and col2 indicate the titles/captions of each row and column.

I tried making a 3x3 matrix but I cannot see how I would get the brackets spanning multiple rows of the matrix. Is there any way to go about this?

[localghost]

Some other topics might help you [1,2]. Perhaps the "Math mode" document has some more solutions.

[1] View topic: Matrix row and column numbers
[2] View topic: type outside the borders of matrix


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[MadEgg]

Right, I tried searching but did not find anything. The first link provides an example doing just what I want, although the code is quite long for something not that complex. Let's see if I can store this somewhere where I can find it again when I need it.

Thanks for the help!