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[Norbert Nemec <address@hidden>]

The question should not be: "How often is the algorithm incorrect" - which 
might be 40% (from personal experience, I doubt that, but probably I'm not 
that picky), but "How often do users actually manually resize the 
parentheses" - which would probably be around 1% (or even less - I guess I'm 
not the only one who never even thought about it...)

And without manual fine-tuning, the automatic parens are definitely the 
better 
choice.

Am Mittwoch, 6. August 2003 21:30 schrieb Alvaro Tejero Cantero:
> On mi? 2003-08-06 at 09:11, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > is there a specific reason why large brackets (parenthesis, braces, etc.)
> >  in math mode need the Alt-key instead of just having them as the
> > default? IMO, there is little, if any reason to ever use the non-resizing
> > versions.
>
> Once Joris told me that sometimes the size is not correctly guessed so
> that manual fine-tuning is needed. The point is which usage is
> statistically dominant, and that depends on the resizing algorithm. If
> Joris is comfident that in say more than 60% of cases parentheses are
> adequately resized, I would second that resizable-by-default proposal
> (with the option to enter fixed-size delimiters, of course).
>
> > Ciao,
> > Nobbi
>
> cheers, álv.

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