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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 11-8-4 on page II-211 in "Mathematical symbol classes".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See
https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3examargin}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{135.0pt}
% Shorten the vertical size of the example ...
\AtBeginDocument{%
\setlength\abovedisplayskip{.2\abovedisplayskip}%
\setlength\belowdisplayskip{.1\belowdisplayskip}%
}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{mleftright}
\thinmuskip=10mu \medmuskip=15mu \thickmuskip=20mu
%StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\[ a \Bigl( \sum x \Bigr) = a \mleft( \sum x \mright) \]
\[ \sin(x^2),x \simeq \sin\mleft(x^2\mright),x \]
\end{document}