User talk:Mary K

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LaTeX tables
I (may have) answered your question over at the Reference Desk. -Splash 19:44, 19 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi there. Yes, I think you haven't told LaTeX to \usepackage{amsmath} which introduces most of the mathematical commands, and is the package that, in this case at least, the stretchy brace is taken from. Here is a compiling, full document that just produces the table you mentioned. You should be able to copy-paste this into a blank .tex file and have it compile:


 * \documentclass{report}
 * \usepackage{amsmath}
 * \begin{document}
 * \begin{table}
 * \centering
 * \begin{tabular}{r|c|c}
 * Input & Output & Formula\\
 * \hline
 * A & 1 & $x=f_1(y)$\\
 * B & 2 & $x=f_2(y)$\\
 * $\left\{\begin{matrix} \mathrm{C} \\ \mathrm{D} \\ \mathrm{E} \end{matrix} \right.$ & 3 & $x=f_3(y)$ \\
 * F & 4 & $x=f_4(y)$
 * \end{tabular}
 * \end{table}
 * \end{document}

If you plan to do much that is clever with mathematics, you'll find things like \usepackage{amsfonts} and \usepackage{amssymb} useful too. Hope that helps. -Splash 21:08, 20 August 2005 (UTC)