Hi, Thanks for your followup. "Mr. Geepus the Sweeper" wrote: > You should be able to achieve something of the sort by doing this: > > 1. In the Math Editor, type out "f(x)=x*2" (or \times or \cdot or > whatever). > > 2. Now, go to the Math Panel and open the Delimiters dialog; set the left > and right delimiters to whatever you need, and hit Ok. > > 3. Within the delimiters you just inserted, insert a Matrix with however > many rows and columns you want... in your example above, you'd probably want > two columns so you could left-justify your terms, but you could just use one > column if you're not picky. The delimiters will grow to surround the entire > matrix. You can even nest matrices; they look odd in LyX, but the printed > output will still be nice. > I have followed your instructions but I cannot get it to give the O/P I need. I have attached a demo .lyx file to better illustrate the point. Do you have any more suggestions? Thanks again. Tom. -- Tom Crane, Dept. Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, England. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] SPAN: 19.875 Fax: 01784 472794
#This file was created by <tom> Mon Oct 25 21:19:09 1999 #LyX 1.0 (C) 1995-1999 Matthias Ettrich and the LyX Team \lyxformat 2.15 \textclass revtex \begin_preamble %\documentstyle[preprint,prl,aps,epsf]{revtex} \def \rem#1 {{}} \def \com#1 {{\bf \it #1 }} \def \p#1 {{\bf #1 \par }} %\def \rej#1 {{\small \it #1 }} \def \rej#1 {{}} \def \endnote#1 {{\small [#1]}} \def \deg#1 {$#1^\circ$} %% Tom's defs... \def \hbn#1 {$h$-BN} \def \3he#1 {$^{3}$He} \end_preamble \options prl,aps,epsf \language default \inputencoding default \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize Default \paperpackage a4 \use_geometry 0 \use_amsmath 0 \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 2 \papersides 2 \paperpagestyle default \layout Standard The main problem with this equation is that the bracket sizes don't match up. The justification I could live with. \layout Standard \begin_inset Formula \begin{eqnarray*} r(w)= & & z+\exp \left[ -\int ^{b}_{a}\left( 2x-5y\right) \left\{ \frac{2}{5}P_{1}(t)\exp \left( -a\left( u_{y}-u_{x}\right) w\right) +\right. \right. \\ & & 6P_{1}(t)\exp \left( -au_{y}w\right) +\\ & & \left. \left. 3G_{2}(\tau )\exp \left( -a\left( u_{y}+u_{x}\right) w\right) \right\} dt\right] \end{eqnarray*} \end_inset \layout Standard Following your method (I think!) gives this which is not what I need -- the [{}] need to open on the first line of the matrixed-bit and close on the 3rd line of the matrixed bit as the above equation does. \layout Standard \begin_inset Formula \[ r(w)=z+\exp \left[ -\int ^{b}_{a}\left( 2x-5y\right) \left\{ \begin{array}{cc} & \frac{2}{5}P_{1}(t)\exp \left( -a\left( u_{y}-u_{x}\right) w\right) +\\ & 6P_{1}(t)\exp \left( -au_{y}w\right) +\\ & 3G_{2}(\tau )\exp \left( -a\left( u_{y}+u_{x}\right) w\right) \end{array}\right\} dt\right] \] \end_inset \the_end