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Has anyone noticed that in math mode, the brackets do not scale? As in, they all remain the same size and looks somewhat unprofessional and cluttered. I cannot use the \[ \] method because I need the equations to be labeled on the side: (1), (2), etc. as normal; it's a stupid requirement I know. Any suggestions on how to bend math mode?

David Carlisle
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Zach Czajkowski
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    Welcome to TeX.SE. For scaling you can use fixed scaled or automatically scaled size. For example \bigl( and \bigr), ... etc or \left( and right). For more read some introductory text about writing math with latex. For example https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Mathematics (Automatic sizing, Manual sizing) – Zarko Nov 28 '23 at 05:04
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    Automatically scaling fences by default is a very bad idea as it often leads to excessive scaling especially in math in the text, which then disturbs line spacing. – daleif Nov 28 '23 at 06:03
  • Various options, \big etc. or \left \right. Related questions: 1 2 3 (strangely enough there's no exact duplicate, probably because this is too basic) – user202729 Nov 28 '23 at 06:48
  • You can try \usepackage{nath}. – Henri Menke Nov 28 '23 at 09:19
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    "Has anyone noticed that in math mode, the brackets do not scale? " brackets scale when specified as delimiters, if you want them to scale but they are not scaling, presumably there is an error in your code, but as you have not shown any code, it is hard to help. – David Carlisle Nov 28 '23 at 09:50
  • @HenriMenke Provided amsmath is not loaded, which is quite a difficult requirement. – egreg Nov 28 '23 at 10:02
  • It sounds like you're thinking of the cases environment. Maybe this will help: Using numcases with cases – barbara beeton Nov 28 '23 at 14:36

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