Emacs package for manipulation of brackets in LaTeX mode
If you dislike the \left and \right macros in LaTeX, you are not alone!
Quoting from the manual of the amsmath package
(see section 4.14.1):
The automatic delimiter sizing done by \left and \right has two limitations: First, it is applied mechanically to produce delimiters large enough to encompass the largest contained item, and second, the range of sizes is not even approximately continuous but has fairly large quantum jumps.
You might prefer manual sizing through the size modifiers: \big, \Big,
\bigg and \Bigg, or even better (this requires amsmath): \bigl...\bigr,
\Bigl...\Bigr, \biggl...\biggr and \Biggl...\Biggr. But then, resizing
becomes painful: you need to move to the opening delimiter, change its size
modifier, then move to the closing delimiter, and do the same.
Introducing bratex, that defines functions to automatically cycle through size
delimiters.
A picture is worth a thousand words… So the four major functions defined in the
bratex package are illustrated below.
bratex-cycle-size (S-up) |
bratex-cycle-size-reverse (S-down) |
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bratex-cycle-bracket (S-right) |
bratex-cycle-bracket-reverse (S-left) |
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For the time being, package-install is not enabled (contributions
welcome!).
Checkout the current repository, and place the file bratex.el
somewhere in your load-path.
Add the following lines to your init.el file
(require 'bratex)
(add-hook 'latex-mode-hook #'bratex-config)
Add the following lines to your init.el file
(require 'bratex)
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook #'bratex-config)