smith@zeus.harvard.edu (Steven Smith) (06/14/91)
Recently, I tried to incorporate the \big, \Big, ..., \Bigg delimiter selection scheme of plain TeX within a 12-point LaTeX document. To my dismay, I found that the selection of parenthesis size was much coarser than that of plain TeX's. After much hair pulling and profanity I found that LaTeX does *not* set \textfont3 to cmex10 at 12pt when the styles \documentstyle[12pt]{article} or \documentstyle[12pt]{book} are used. Furthermore, the fix \font\twlex=cmex10 at 12pt \textfont3=\twlex must be issued *after* the \begin{document} command because this command sets \textfont3 to cmex10. I doubt that these ``features'' were designed into 12-point LaTeX typesetting. Does anyone know of a way to fix the file art12.sty to make them go away? Does anyone know why Lamport neglected to include the \big, ..., \Bigg macros in the first place? Steven Smith