Big Brackets/Parenthesis

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Big Brackets/Parenthesis

Hi There,

I need to use big brackets - the ones that go over several lines as seen in complicated equations – in order to do some phonological notation. I'd prefer not to draw them in, either in Pages or by hand(!), or pay for the Mathtype plugin. And adding them from the character viewer isn't perfect, either as the linespacing means that they either overlap or don't quite meet. There must be a simple solution to this. Please help, you mathematicians, linguists and other multiline parenthesis users.

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Nov 22, 2010 3:56 PM

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Answer 1

KOENIG Yvan

Level 8

41,825 points

Nov 23, 2010 5:00 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Hello Tom

I got a surprising behavior with this link.

(1) I tried Latex online saying that it requires Firefox
(2) I entered it with Safari . At some attempts, the big "accolade" which I got was not a continuous object. It's a GIF picture with a white area slipping the shape into two components. At other attempts the GIF doesn't display the white area.
(3) when I try to reach from Firefox the page pointed by the link which you posted, Firefox is busy during some seconds then it stop displaying nothing.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 23 novembre 2010 14:00:34

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Answer 2

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

122,478 points

Nov 22, 2010 4:59 PM in response to Tom21

See if any of these options help:

http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2008/12/typing-equations-and-formulas.html

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Answer 3

fruhulda

Level 6

15,167 points

Nov 22, 2010 10:38 PM in response to Tom21

Here is a similar discussion
[http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12563059]

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