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I would like to make a macro, \vfrac, which output would look like: $$\displaylines{ \displaystyle\raise.25ex\hbox{$\displaystyle1$}\!/\!\lower.5ex\hbox{$\displaystyle2$} \cr \textstyle\raise....
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Is there a test for the different styles within maths mode? What I really want is to be able to save the current style to reinvoke it later on, but a \if along the lines of \ifmmode would work just ...
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Typically a TeX command have arguments coming after it. But the command \over, which is used to produce fractions, can access the token before it. How exactly is it implemented and can I define a ...
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I have a small nitpicking query I have: $S\sqsubset\mathbf{P}$ and noticed that the \sqsubset symbol is a bit too low (off centered) for my liking. Is it possible to shift it up slightly?
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I am trying to learn how to use \mathchoice. Before the solution was posted for Non-invasive replacement for \fbox?, I attempted to use mathchoice to adjust the size of the parameter before measuring ...
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I'd like to be able to set a new math command/macro that is a Sigma shifted slightly (diagonal) on top of another Sigma, but am unsure how to go about it. I'd like it to behave just as a single Sigma ...
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This was fixed in version from 2017/06/15 (available on CTAN). This is a followup question of How to transfer math style in \hbox_set?. While the code I posted there as an answer using LuaTeX’s \...
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\left and \right are convenient but sometimes they're a bit overeager in stretching the parentheses. In that case we can manually use \bigl, \Bigl, etc. I have defined a new command like this \...
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The mathtools package provides a number of commands like \mathmbox which preserve the current math style. The process seems to involve a lot of \expandafters, \mathpalette and \m@th. The following ...
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I'm writing a paper that uses the symbol \dot{\mathcal{U}} which for me (in PDFLaTeX with Palatino math fonts) looks like this: As you can imagine, from further away, the dot is invisible. Is there ...
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This was brought to my attention by our colleague, Lover of Structure, but since it affects my scalerel package (which began using the mathstyle package to detect the current math style, as of version ...
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I'm typing a logic definition within an align environment that uses \overset{def}{=} from the amsmath environment. However, the new sign is aligned vertically based on the equality sign, and not on ...
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I wanted to define some partial derivative commands that would be \partial y/\partial x if it was inside an inline equation and would use \frac{\partial y}{\partial x} if inside an equation ...
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I think this is a follow-up to How to capture the current math style?. In this MWE, \bm{\testbox} works when used after \testbox. But it does not work on its own (commented line): \documentclass{...
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This question is kind of follow up question of the following How to capture the current math style? Is there a test for the different styles inside maths mode? Cache math content in savebox and ...
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