Re: typing/formatting multi-part definition with alignment
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- Subject: [mg41076] Re: typing/formatting multi-part definition with alignment
- From: Selwyn Hollis <hollisse at mail.armstrong.edu>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 04:59:19 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi Murray,
There's a button on the BasicTypesetting palette for this. You can add
rows with control-return, just like with matrices. In order to have the
curly bracket expand properly, you can highlight it and select
Edit > Expression > Spanning Characters > Expand Indefinitely.
You could also use the Options Inspector to set SpanMaxSize->Infinity
on a Global or Notebook level. That option is in
Formatting Options > Expression Formatting > Spanning Character Options.
(Thanks to Allan Hayes for putting this in an old MEIR article.)
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Selwyn Hollis
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Murray Eisenberg wrote:
A basic mathematical type-setting operation is to build up a display of
a form such as
/ 0 if t < 0,
f(t) = <
\ 1 if t >= 0.
where what I have typed here with the < sign, forward slash, and
backward slash stands for a large curly brace. This display is to
appear using Traditional math notation and to be part of a text cell.
How can one (preferably, easily) type such a thing in Mathematica?
I have read previous MathGroup posts about aligning on = signs and the
like, and none seem to respond to this entire question (and even
aligning on = signs for just several lines of equations is quite
difficult).
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Hi Murray,
There's a button on the BasicTypesetting palette for this. You can add
rows with control-return, just like with matrices. In order to have
the curly bracket expand properly, you can highlight it and select
Edit > Expression > Spanning Characters > Expand Indefinitely.
You could also use the Options Inspector to set SpanMaxSize->Infinity
on a Global or Notebook level. That option is in
Formatting Options > Expression Formatting > Spanning Character
Options.
(Thanks to Allan Hayes for putting this in an old MEIR article.)
-----
Selwyn Hollis
-------------------------------------
Murray Eisenberg wrote:
A basic mathematical type-setting operation is to build up a display of
a form such as
/ 0 if t << 0,
f(t) = <<
\ 1 if t >= 0.
where what I have typed here with the << sign, forward slash, and
backward slash stands for a large curly brace. This display is to
appear using Traditional math notation and to be part of a text cell.
How can one (preferably, easily) type such a thing in Mathematica?
I have read previous MathGroup posts about aligning on = signs and the
like, and none seem to respond to this entire question (and even
aligning on = signs for just several lines of equations is quite
difficult).