Andre Poenitz wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:43:41PM +0100, Edwin Velds wrote:
> > I have a small issue with brackets in equations, when I put an
> > expression between brackets it sizes the symbol in such a way that it's
> > equal size on both sides of the equation axis. But this can look might
> > strange when you have a fraction in there which size is much larger on
> > one side. A useless example of this:
> > \left[\frac{\sqrt{\frac{E}{Z}}^\frac{4}{3}}{a}\right]^2
> > Is there a way to make the brackets match the actual content (The way
> > LyX itself shows it)?
>
> ?
>
> What version of LyX are you talking about?
1.1.6fix3
>
> 1.2.0 tries to match on-screen appearance with the LaTeX output - which
> is 'centered on the equation axis'?
>
> Not centering the delimiters gives funny results when writing things like
> (a^2)(b_i).
Normally it's perfect, but on occasions I would prefer it differently.
In MathType on Windows it's possible to have change the "fence
alignment" to three different styles, however when I export those three
to ams-latex, I get three times the same result.
>
> Usually one can enter these directly using the Compose key. ö is
> Compose-"-o.
>
What key would that be on a standard US internal keyboard? Or do I need
to have bind one to that in X? The Sun workstation I'm behind now has a
compose key, but I can't get that to work either though. (I won't ask
how that works over a VNC connection :-).
Edwin
