1*cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*cdf0e10cSrcweir 3*cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*cdf0e10cSrcweir<!--*********************************************************************** 5*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 6*cdf0e10cSrcweir * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 8*cdf0e10cSrcweir * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 10*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 12*cdf0e10cSrcweir * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 14*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15*cdf0e10cSrcweir * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16*cdf0e10cSrcweir * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 18*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19*cdf0e10cSrcweir * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20*cdf0e10cSrcweir * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21*cdf0e10cSrcweir * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22*cdf0e10cSrcweir * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 24*cdf0e10cSrcweir * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25*cdf0e10cSrcweir * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26*cdf0e10cSrcweir * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27*cdf0e10cSrcweir * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 29*cdf0e10cSrcweir ************************************************************************--> 30*cdf0e10cSrcweir 31*cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32*cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 33*cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsmathguideparenthesesxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34*cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Inserting Brackets</title> 35*cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/smath/guide/parentheses.xhp</filename> 36*cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 37*cdf0e10cSrcweir<history> 38*cdf0e10cSrcweir<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39*cdf0e10cSrcweir<lastedited date="2005-09-05T15:45:00">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40*cdf0e10cSrcweir</history> 41*cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 42*cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 43*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3153415"><bookmark_value>brackets; inserting in %PRODUCTNAME Math</bookmark_value> 44*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark_value>inserting;brackets</bookmark_value> 45*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark_value>distances between brackets</bookmark_value> 46*cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 47*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153415" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><variable id="parentheses"><link href="text/smath/guide/parentheses.xhp" name="Inserting Brackets">Inserting Brackets</link> 48*cdf0e10cSrcweir</variable></paragraph> 49*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150751" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="2">In <item type="productname">%PRODUCTNAME</item> Math, can brackets be shown separately so that the distance between them is freely definable?</paragraph> 50*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3083281" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">You can set individual brackets using "left" and "right", but the distance between the brackets will not be fixed, as they adapt to the argument. Nevertheless, there is a way to display brackets so that the distance between them is fixed. To accomplish this, place a "\" (backslash) before the normal brackets. These brackets now behave like any other symbol and the alignment is the same as with other symbols:</paragraph> 51*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155960" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">left lbrace x right none</paragraph> 52*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3148489" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">size *2 langle x rangle</paragraph> 53*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150344" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">size *2 \langle x \rangle</paragraph> 54*cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="relatedtopics"> 55*cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/smath/guide/brackets.xhp#brackets"/> 56*cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 57*cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 58*cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 59