According to texdoc symbols: \mvert and \mid are identical and produce a relation. \vert is a synonym for | and both produce the same symbol, but should be used in the context of an ordinal, and should be …

Oct 2, 2019 · In short, \bigl\vert <some math atom> \bigr\vert is definitely better than \big\vert <some math atom> \big\vert, typographically speaking, as it produces the correct spacing in all cases. A final …

Jun 18, 2024 · How can I change the size of \vert accordingly like \left and \right command [duplicate] Ask Question Asked 1 year, 6 months ago Modified 1 year, 6 months ago

Feb 6, 2025 · At the 3rd line of the following code, the curly brackets appear too big. But if \\left is removed, the curly brackets appear too small. I wonder if there is a way to get a right size of the curly

Mar 18, 2025 · As already mentioned by @Explorer in a comment, the mathtools package provides several tools to create paired delimiters of various types. The \DeclarePairedDelimiterXPP macro …

Also, you have $\vert$ and $\Vert$. Since you mention using a vertical bar as a binary relation, you may want $\mid$ which is kerned to sit midway between its neighbours. But that has no double-bar …

After some fighting with Asana Math, I thought that I could give a Palatino-like math font a chance. So the questions are: (1) what exactly is the difference between pxfonts and mathpazo and (2) h...

Here's a solution that doesn't require the use of additional packages. The new command, \vertiii, takes one argument; the triple vertical bars resize automatically depending on the size of the argument. For …

Aug 16, 2015 · The vertical bar produced by | or \vert has TeX math type "ordinary", meaning that no special meaning is attached to it. Quite often, though, it's necessary to inform TeX that the bar does …

The LaTeX commands \\mid and \\vert may be used to make a vertical bar. I can appreciate that \\vert is short for vertical, but why \\mid? Is it short for middle? and if so, middle of what?