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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> I'd like to be able to write out the evaluation of a definite integral,
> showing the indefinite integral with a large right pipe with the lower
> and upper bounds shown as subscript and superscript of that large pipe
> symbol.  But it always dynamically sizes that pipe symbol, so if I write
> two integrals near one another, and one has a rational expression inside
> and the other a polynomial, one pipe is taller than the other.  For the
> shorter one, the super and subscript end up too close together and it
> looks crowded.  I'd like to be able to say "make the pipe this tall".
> How can I do that in TeXmacs?  Perhaps there should be an easy way, and
> it should be documented in the section on entering mathematical
> expressions.  Of course this evaluation construct ought to be a thing in
> itself that can be parsed by the math software interface glue code...

Yes, this is an item on our wish-list... What you can do as a temporary
fix, is resize the expression at the interior of your big delimiters using

        Insert -> Special -> Resize object

Sure, this has to be better documented...