From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: A cases type environment using a right brace?
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:49:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E282E63.1000805@uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CDCD503C-9F1B-41FF-B366-03D6CD3FCCEE@googlemail.com>
On 07/21/2011 03:43 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
or perhaps predefined metapost graphics for setting
background={metapost:leftbrace,metapost:topbrace}, etc (similar to line
shading macros.
>
> MetaPost is the easier choice because we can add more styles to draw also fancy borders for tables etc.
>
> Wolfgang
In my viewer (okular), it also looks nicer. With the $\left\{ solution,
one could see tiny gaps between the parts of the brace. I assume this
wouldn't be visible when you print it out, but at large sizes in a
presentation, this doesn't look very nice, whereas the metapost solution
is perfect.
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-21 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-21 2:26 Alasdair McAndrew
2011-07-21 3:50 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-07-21 3:58 ` Alasdair McAndrew
2011-07-21 6:20 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2011-07-21 12:21 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-07-21 12:41 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2011-07-21 13:24 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-07-21 13:43 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-07-21 13:49 ` Thomas A. Schmitz [this message]
2011-07-21 16:32 ` Hans Hagen
2011-07-21 17:25 ` Hans Hagen
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