typesetting piecewise function
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg19761] typesetting piecewise function
- From: Henrik Weimer <henrik at rice.edu>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 03:53:09 -0400
- Organization: Rice University
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello!
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:
\!\(\*
RowBox[{\(\[ScriptCapitalN][\[ScriptX]]\), "=",
RowBox[{"{", GridBox[{
{"1",
RowBox[{
RowBox[{
RowBox[{
StyleBox["if",
"Text"], " ", "0"}], "<", "\[ScriptX]", "<=", "1"}],
","}]},
{"0",
StyleBox["otherwise",
"Text"]}
}]}]}]\)
If I use a regular opening paren instead of the curly brace it scales
fine (I guess Mathematica thinks this is a matrix). Is there a way of
getting this to look right with a large opening curly brace or something
similar?
Thanks,
Henrik Weimer
henrik at rice.edu