Re: TECH: more help?

On 6/22/06, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> it would be nice to be able to use professional
> looking big square and curly brackets.
[...]
> Question to anyone who's done math.formulae or linguistic rules using these
> things-- is it possible?
Sure.

> how is it done?
I would probably look towards (La)TeX for that kind of typesetting.
It's designed for typesetting mathematics, and one result of this is
that it has several sizes of brackets, including one that grows to fit
the contents.

However, I don't know whether you can easily continue to use
Thryomanes -- I seem to recall that getting TeX to use specific TTF
fonts could be a bit arcane. If you're satisfied with TeX's standard
Computer Modern typeface, though, things might well be easier.

> X --> Y /__{A, B} which isn't very clear; perhaps {1.A 2B} ??
>
> or I could use two or more lines:  X --> Y /__ {A }
>                                                {B }
>
> ( {B} should be directly under [A} -- a little closer to how it OUGHT to
> look.)
There's a screenshot of an attempt I made at
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/pne/sample.png . Something like
that?

(I used an ellipsis since underscores are special in TeX and in my
quick hack I didn't want to bother finding out how to put a literal
underscore into maths mode. Also, the letters are italic since that's
the default for maths mode, but you can make them upright if you
want.)

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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