# New on CTAN: phfparen

Date: August 16, 2016 7:24:20 PM CEST
Philippe Faist submitted the phfparen package. Version: 1.0 2016-08-15 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: Parenthetic math expressions made simpler and less redundant Announcement text:
Provides a more condensed and flexible syntax for parenthesis-delimited expressions in math mode, which allows switching brace sizes easily for instance. For example, the syntax " \big( a + b ) " can be used to replace "\bigl( a + b \bigr)".
The package's Catalogue entry can be viewed at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/phfparen The package's files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/phfparen/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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## phfparen – Parenthetic math expressions made simpler and less redundant

This package provides a more condensed and flexible syntax for parenthesis-delimited expressions in math mode which also allows for an easier switching of brace sizes.

For example, the syntax “ \big( a + b ) ” can be used to replace “\bigl( a + b \bigr)”.

 Package phfparen Version 1.0 2016-08-15 Copyright 2016 Philippe Faist Maintainer Philippe Faist

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