Problem getting different-sized fences in Y&Y TeX

[Ganz, Frank, SV USA]

You have to type the following:

  \left (  ... \left \{ ... [ ... ] \right \} ... \right )

Thanks,
Frank

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Wilson [mailto:jwilson at EOS.NCSU.EDU]
>Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 6:59 PM
>To: YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE
>Subject: Problem getting different-sized fences in Y&Y TeX
>
>
>The following PDF files
>
>   ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/eos/pub/jwilson/test11.pdf
>
>   ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/eos/pub/jwilson/test12.pdf
>
>show the result of typesetting in Y&Y TeX the LaTeX files
>test11.tex and test12.tex that are contained in the .zip file
>
>   ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/eos/pub/jwilson/fence-test.ZIP
>
>The typeset output of test11.tex is set in 11-point Times
>Roman type; and
>as you can see in equation (1), the nested fences
>
>  \Big  (  ... \big \{ ... [ ... ] \big \} ... \Big )
>
>show up in progressively smaller sizes as the nesting gets deeper.
>This is what I want to indicate visually the level of nesting
>of conditional expectations in this situation.
>
>On the other hand, when we typeset this same LaTeX file in 12-point
>type, the result seen in test12.pdf is clear not what was intended---
>\big \{  seems to produce a curly left brace that is the same size
>as the normalsize left square bracket [.   Similarly, the \big |
>produces exactly the same size vertical bar | as the normalsize |.
>
>If the intended effect is achieved in 11-point type, then it seems it
>should work in a similar way in 12-point type.
>
>Is there some way to fix this?
>
>Jim Wilson
>