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I am curious, since I have done several tests, how to set up the square brackets for the first matrix when I use the border with spalign package. I have seen this question and....actually I am not able to do it.

Better spacing around brackets of kbordermatrix

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{spalign}
\begin{document}
\[\def\spalignendline{\cr}
\spalignrun{\bordermatrix{\the\spaligntoks}}
{, \scriptstyle{1} \scriptstyle{2}; \scriptstyle{1} 0 1; \scriptstyle{2} 1 0}\times \spaligndelims{[}{]} \spalignmat{a b; c d}=\spaligndelims{\{}{\}} \spalignmat{r t; s w}\]
\end{document}

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Phelype Oleinik
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Sebastiano
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  • @campa Hiii :-)...and thank you very much for your comment. I not know it. But after 8 years and 10 months ago, do I must necessary to use modification of \bordermatrix? sigh sigh....But in spalign package is recent...So is this package obsolete? – Sebastiano Mar 05 '21 at 13:05
  • @campa spalign package. I have seen the documentation...October 5, 2016. See § 3 Implementation pag. 10. – Sebastiano Mar 05 '21 at 13:08
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    I wouldn't say it's obsolete. It looks like it's been loaded on CTAN and never modified, so maybe it's unmantained, but it seems to be still working (I didn't know it so I have no experience with it). Regarding \bordermatrix: that's a plain TeX macro which has been copied into LaTeX and it will be likely never be modified. I see no trouble with making a copy changing the brackets, though I'd define my own version with interchangeable delimiters. But as you might have noticed I tend to use very few packages and write my own macros. – campa Mar 05 '21 at 13:14
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    Wouldn't nicematrix be better? – egreg Mar 05 '21 at 14:16
  • @egreg Surely with nicematrix, but... I wanted get another answer using spalign package. The answer with nicematrix has been put from the maintainer of the package. – Sebastiano Mar 05 '21 at 21:00

2 Answers2

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The parentheses are hard-coded in \bordermatrix. You could define a version with brackets explicitly as shown in \bordermatrix with brackets [ ] instead of parentheses ( ).

Alternatively, let us be lazy, copy the definition of \bordermatrix, and let xpatch replace the parentheses by brackets.

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{spalign}

\usepackage{xpatch}
\let\bbordermatrix\bordermatrix
\xpatchcmd{\bbordermatrix}{(}{[}{}{}
\xpatchcmd{\bbordermatrix}{)}{]}{}{}


\begin{document}
[
\def\spalignendline{\cr}\spaligndelims{[}{]}
\spalignrun{\bbordermatrix{\the\spaligntoks}}
{, \scriptstyle{1} \scriptstyle{2}; \scriptstyle{1} 0 1; \scriptstyle{2} 1 0}
\times
\spaligndelims{[}{]} \spalignmat{a b; c d}
=
\spaligndelims{{}{}} \spalignmat{r t; s w}
]
\end{document}

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campa
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For information, in nicematrix, you can easily write a command \lightmatrix to compose matrices with the syntax of spalign (thanks to the key light-syntax inspired by spalign) with the ability to use all the features of nicematrix, included exterior rows and columns (inspired by \bordermatrix and kbordermatrix).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{nicematrix}

\begin{document}


\ExplSyntaxOn
\NewDocumentCommand { \lightmatrix } { D < > { p } O { } m } 
  {
    \group_begin:
    \NiceMatrixOptions { light-syntax }
    \begin { #1 NiceMatrix} [ #2 ]
    #3
    \end { #1 NiceMatrix }
    \group_end:
  }
\ExplSyntaxOff


\NiceMatrixOptions
  {
    code-for-first-row = \scriptstyle, 
    code-for-first-col = \scriptstyle,
  }


$\lightmatrix<b>[first-row,first-col]{ {}  1  2 ; 1  0  1 ; 2 1 0 }
\times
\lightmatrix{a  b ; c  d}
= 
\lightmatrix<B>{r  t ; s  w}$


\end{document}

Output of the above code

F. Pantigny
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  • Very nice answer ..but you first matrix have not the square brackets with the labels out the matrix. – Sebastiano Mar 05 '21 at 21:02
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    @Sebastiano: You are right. I have modified my answer. – F. Pantigny Mar 05 '21 at 21:06
  • Ah, don't worry. Please, what is the code to have the square brackets? – Sebastiano Mar 05 '21 at 21:10
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    \lightmatrix{...} for rounded brackets (the default value), \lightmatrix<b>{...} for the square brackets, \lightmatrix{B} for curly braces, etc. – F. Pantigny Mar 05 '21 at 21:14
  • Thank you very much...and I have given a suggestion for a your recent answer. Excuse me with all my heart...but I give the check mark to @campa because is very closer to my question. But...I have given my grazie in another forms. – Sebastiano Mar 05 '21 at 21:18