Classes

See official documentation

Each math symbol has its own "class", the way it behaves. That's one of the main reasons why they are layouted differently.

Classes

$
a b c\
a class("normal", b) c\
a class("punctuation", b) c\
a class("opening", b) c\
a lr(b c]) c\
a lr(class("opening", b) c ]) c // notice it is moved vertically \
a class("closing", b) c\
a class("fence", b) c\
a class("large", b) c\
a class("relation", b) c\
a class("unary", b) c\
a class("binary", b) c\
a class("vary", b) c\
$
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Setting class for symbol

Default:

$square circle square$

With `#h(0)`:

$square #h(0pt) circle #h(0pt) square$

With `math.class`:

#show math.circle: math.class.with("normal")
$square circle square$
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