[OS X TeX] Re: smaller matrix in math mode

[Claus Gerhardt]

\larger is part of amsart or amsbook, i.e., part of the ams classes,  
which I always use. The example works for me.

Claus


On Sep 7, 2009, at 22:56, david craig wrote:

>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
>> Use the amsmath package
>>
>> \begin{equation}
>>  {\larger[-3]
>> \begin{pmatrix}
>> \text{alternate}\\
>> \text{definition}
>> \end{pmatrix}
>> }  \qquad
>> y = x
>> \end{equation}
>
> I AM using amsmath.  (Isn't \pmatrix from amsmath?)  \larger  
> generates an "Undefined control sequence".  Google had also led me  
> to a post from some years ago (I think from Claus!) suggesting  
> \smaller[] for an essentially similar problem -- but that also  
> generates the same error. I couldn't find any documentation on  
> \smaller, either.  (Nor can I for \larger, for that matter!)
>
> Maybe these are being supplied by some other package, Claus?
>
>> \hbox{\scriptsize $ %need to go back into math ...
>> \begin{pmatrix}
>> \text{alternate}\\
>> \text{definition}
>> \end{pmatrix}$}%  ... and end math inside the hbox.
>>   \qquad
>> y = x
>
> Great, that works fine.  The examples I found googling didn't have  
> the internal $$.   \mbox works, too.   Any reason to prefer one over  
> the other in future applications?
>
> Thanks,
> David Craig
>
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