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)[reply]

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)[reply]