I would like to put a tall (long) left curly bracket on the left side of the following:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\noindent
c: $\{$1, ..., n$\}$ $\rightarrow$ $\{$1, ..., n$\}$, such that
\hspace{20 mm}
\noindent
c($a_i$) = $a_{i+1}$ for 1 $\le$ $i$ < $l$
\hspace{20 mm}
\noindent
c($a_l$) = $a_1$
\end{document}
Please let me know if you can help. Thanks!
Best Answer
The following may be close to what you're looking for:
Some comments:
cases
environment, provided by theamsmath
package, to place a left curly brace ahead of two or more expressions....
to create a typographical ellipsis; instead, use\dots
.\text{ }
command to write text material inside mathematical expressions.\colon
instead of:
.On the other hand, if you need the left-hand curly brace to span all three rows, you could do so with the following code:
Observe, though, that this code doesn't make full use of the capabilities of the
cases
environment; for sure, one could replace\begin{cases} ... \end{cases}
with a more basic\left\{\begin{array}{@{}l} ... \end{array}\right.
construct.