Add a command to every display mode math equation

Question

Is it possible to have a hook in every display math mode, before and after the formula?

For example: if I would like to make every display formula 50% smaller, I would ask the hook on entering the $$ formula to be \scalebox{.5}\bgroup\ensuremath\bgroup and the one on leaving the formula would be \egroup\egroup.

It should work both with $$...$$, \[...\] and with \begin{equation}...\end{equation}.

In other words, writing

\def\beginDisplayMathHook{\scalebox{.5}\bgroup\ensuremath\bgroup}
\def\endDisplayMathHook{\egroup\egroup}
$$ x^2+y^2=1 $$

should be equivalent to

$$\scalebox{.5}{\ensuremath{x^2+y^2=1}}$$

Is this possible?

possibly it's possible but that would also have other bad effects eg making it inline math not display math, a more robust alternative would be to specify smaller math fonts with (for example) \DeclareMathSizes rather than use scaling — David Carlisle, Oct 12 '16 at 21:57
Well in fact what I want to do is a \resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{...} whenever the formula is larger than \textwidth… — yannis, Oct 12 '16 at 22:02

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 12 '16 at 22:35

4

may the gods of math typesetting forgive me.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\def\z#1{\par\hrule$$#1$$\[#1\]\begin{equation}#1\end{equation}\hrule}

\setlength\textwidth{4cm}

\makeatletter
\everydisplay{%
\setbox0\hbox\bgroup
\global\setbox1\box\voidb@x 
\def\eqno#1$${\global\setbox1\hbox{#1}$$}%
$\displaystyle\def\]{$$}\aftergroup\foo}
\def\foo${\egroup
\ifdim\dimexpr\wd0+\wd1>\textwidth
  \resizebox{\dimexpr\textwidth-\wd1\relax}{!}{\box0}%
\else
  \box0
\fi
\ifvoid1
\else
\eqno\box1
\fi
$$}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\z{x+y+z}

\z{\frac{111}{2222}+\sqrt{x^2-y^2}}

\z{\frac{111}{2222}+\sqrt{x^2-y^2}+a+b}


\z{\cos\theta - \frac{t^5}{s^4}+\sqrt{x^2-y^2}+a+b}

\z{\cos\theta +\sin\phi + \tan\sigma - \frac{t^5}{s^4}+\sqrt{x^2-y^2}+a+b}

\end{document}

answered Oct 12 '16 at 22:35

David Carlisle

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No, they won't. :P – egreg Oct 12 '16 at 22:46
1

@egreg that's what I fear – David Carlisle Oct 12 '16 at 22:59
Great, thanks!! Don't worry about the gods, this is for private use only, no book carrying the trace of your sin will ever be published (except perhaps the next edition of the Necronomicon, but this even the gods cannot read without going insane). – yannis Oct 13 '16 at 09:56

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 12 '16 at 22:10

There already exists the nccmath package, which defines ‘medium-maths’ commands and environments you might be interested in: they scale to ~ 80 % of \displaystyle.

Here is an example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{nccmath}

\begin{document}
\[ a^2 + b^2 = 1,\quad \int_a^b \frac{f(x)}{g(x)}\,\mathrm d\mkern1mu x, \quad\begin{bmatrix}x & y\\u & v\end{bmatrix}\]%

\[ \medmath{ a^2 + b^2 = 1}, \quad \medint\int_a^b \mfrac{f(x)}{g(x)}\,\mathrm d\mkern1mu x \quad\left[\begin{mmatrix}x & y\\u & v\end{mmatrix}\right] \]%

 \end{document}

Add a command to every display mode math equation

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