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How to make \left, \right pairs of delimiter work over multiple lines?
How can I have this equation:
\begin{eqnarray}\nonumber
\ln T &=& -\sum\limits_{i=1}^{N} \left\{\ln(N2\pi\sigma_x(i)\sigma_y(i))\, \right.\\
&& \left. -\,\ln\left(\sum\limits_{j=1}^{M}\exp\left[-\frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{x_j^2}{\sigma_x(i)}+\frac{y_j^2}{\sigma_y(i)}\right)\right] \right) \right\}
\end{eqnarray}
show the same size for the opening and closing brackets? Right now it looks like this:

Edit
This works:
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
\ln T &= -\sum\limits_{i=1}^{N} \Bigg\{\ln(N2\pi\sigma_x(i)\sigma_y(i))\, \\
& -\,\ln\left(\sum\limits_{j=1}^{M}\exp\left[-\frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{x_j^2}{\sigma_x(i)}+\frac{y_j^2}{\sigma_y(i)}\right)
\right] \right) \Bigg\}
\end{aligned}
\end{equation}
\leftand\rightto generate correctly-sized parentheses, brackets, and braces. Instead, I would use\Bigg\{and\Bigg\}for the outermost braces and\biggland\biggrpairs of parentheses and brackets on the second line. – Mico May 22 '12 at 17:52amsmathand @Mico's suggestion. Added to que question since it is now closed. – Gabriel May 22 '12 at 18:59nath– Aditya May 22 '12 at 19:18