Here's a MWE showing a column matrix and a line matrix. Both are nice to my eyes, except that the first one has thick vertical lines, while the second has small thin vertical lines:
\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,twoside]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[total={6in,10in},left=1.5in,top=0.5in,includehead,includefoot]{geometry}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{tensor}
\begin{document}
\begin{align}
\Psi &\equiv
\begin{bmatrix}
\phantom{\!\!{}_1} \tensor{\Psi}{_{1}} \\
\phantom{\!\!{}_2} \tensor{\Psi}{_{2}} \\
\phantom{\!\!{}_3} \tensor{\Psi}{_{3}} \\
\phantom{\!\!{}_3} \tensor{\vdots}{_{\phantom{3}}} \\
\phantom{\!\!{}_N} \tensor{\Psi}{_{N}}
\end{bmatrix}\!,
\\[1ex]
\bar{\Psi} &\equiv \bigl[ \: \tensor{\bar{\Psi}}{_1}, \, \tensor{\bar{\Psi}}{_2}, \, \tensor{\bar{\Psi}}{_3}, \, \ldots, \, \tensor{\bar{\Psi}}{_N} \bigr].
\end{align}
\end{document}
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I tried other matrix environments for the second one (the horizontal matrix) but it was ugly, and didn't solved the line thickness.
So how can I make both matrices to have similar vertical line thickness?
Alternate MWE code:
\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,twoside]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[total={6in,10in},left=1.5in,top=0.5in,includehead,includefoot]{geometry}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{tensor}
\begin{document}
\begin{align}
\Psi &\equiv
\begin{bmatrix}
\phantom{\!{}_1} \tensor{\Psi}{_{1}} \\[2pt]
\phantom{\!{}_2} \tensor{\Psi}{_{2}} \\[2pt]
\phantom{\!{}_3} \tensor{\Psi}{_{3}} \\
\phantom{\!{}_3} \tensor{\vdots}{_{\phantom{3}}} \\
\phantom{\!{}_N} \tensor{\Psi}{_{N}}
\end{bmatrix}\!,
\\[1ex]
\bar{\Psi} &\equiv
\begin{bmatrix}
\, \tensor{\bar{\Psi}}{_1}, \, \tensor{\bar{\Psi}}{_2}, \, \tensor{\bar{\Psi}}{_3}, \, \ldots, \, \tensor{\bar{\Psi}}{_N}
\end{bmatrix}\!.
\end{align}
\end{document}
The second bmatrix has thin vertical lines, while the first one has thick vertical lines. How to make them the same?
