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Re: typesetting piecewise function

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg19774] Re: typesetting piecewise function
• From: "Stephen P Luttrell" <luttrell at signal.dra.hmg.gb>
• Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 01:36:35 -0400
• Organization: Defence Evaluation and Research Agency
• References: <7rnkf4$elv@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

> I use Mathematica 4 for a lot of my technical writing. One common
> problem I have is defining a piecewise function. In mathematical
> notation one commonly uses a large opening curly brace with all the
> cases listed to the right. In Mathematica I can try to do this but the
> curly brace does not scale to the full hight of the matrix of cases on
> the right. Here is an example
>...

Use SpanMaxSize->Infinity.

You can do this as follows:

1. Select the relevant cell.
2. Start the option inspector (ctrl+shift+O in Windows, at least).
3. Walk down the tree: Formatting Options | Expression Formatting | Spanning
Character Options.
4. Then set SpanMaxSize --> Infinity (it's one of the options offered as
standard).


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