[EXT] Re: rendering brackets

[David Carlisle]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 15:30, Michael J. Baars <
mjbaars1977.tex-live at cyberfiber.eu> wrote:

> Hi Philip,
>
> Well, you can do whatever you like with the .tex example, trow it away
> for all I care.
>
> I'm just trying to tell you, as a friend, that that
> "\left(\frac{1}{a}\right)" and "\left(\frac{a}{1}\right)" are rendered
> with brackets of different size, while the brackets of
> "\left(\frac{1}{2}\right" and "\left(\frac{2}{1}\right)" are rendered
> with brackets of the same size.
>
>
>
That's not unexpected behaviour. Note the denominator isn't affecting the
layout here so your observation is equivalent to

\documentclass[11pt]{article}

\begin{document}

$\left(\frac{1}{}\right)$ and $\left(\frac{a}{}\right)$ are rendered
with brackets of different size, while the brackets of
$\left(\frac{1}{}\right)$ and $\left(\frac{2}{}\right)$ are rendered
with brackets of the same size.
\end{document}


which follows from the fact that 1 and 2 have the same height but 1 has
more height than a

But this due to the font metrics and TeX's rules for using them, not
anything to do with any texlive specific coding: you would see the same in
any tex implementation.

David
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