<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 16:01 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 15:30, Michael J. Baars <<a href="mailto:mjbaars1977.tex-live@cyberfiber.eu">mjbaars1977.tex-live@cyberfiber.eu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Philip,<br>
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Well, you can do whatever you like with the .tex example, trow it away<br>
for all I care.<br>
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I'm just trying to tell you, as a friend, that that<br>
"\left(\frac{1}{a}\right)" and "\left(\frac{a}{1}\right)" are rendered<br>
with brackets of different size, while the brackets of<br>
"\left(\frac{1}{2}\right" and "\left(\frac{2}{1}\right)" are rendered<br>
with brackets of the same size.<br>
<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's not unexpected behaviour. Note the denominator isn't affecting the layout here so your observation is equivalent to<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I see it like this. 75% of the tex input behaves as "intended" (as more than 50% of the input), while 25% behaves differently. I would call that unexpected behaviour.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>\documentclass[11pt]{article}<br><br>\begin{document}<br><br>$\left(\frac{1}{}\right)$ and $\left(\frac{a}{}\right)$ are rendered<br>with brackets of different size, while the brackets of<br>$\left(\frac{1}{}\right)$ and $\left(\frac{2}{}\right)$ are rendered<br>with brackets of the same size. <br>\end{document}</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>which follows from the fact that 1 and 2 have the same height but 1 has more height than a</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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