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Make square parenthesis to grow around an arbitrary expression (in output)?

This is a subroutine that I use to put round parentheses around an arbitrary expression (in output).

dExP [expr_]: = TraditionalForm @ Style ["" [expr]];

Parentheses grow according to the size of the expression.

Is there something similar for square brackets?
POSTED BY: Ernesto Espinosa
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This works with double parentheses

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POSTED BY: Alexander Trounev
Alexey Popkov
Alexey Popkov
Posted 6 years ago

Just remove or move TraditionalForm inside of the parentheses:

dExP[expr_] := Style[""[TraditionalForm@expr]];
dExP[x^x^x]

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POSTED BY: Alexey Popkov

I would do it this way:

wrapInRoundParentheses[expr_] := 
  DisplayForm@RowBox[{"(", expr, ")"}];
wrapInSquareBrackets[expr_] := DisplayForm@RowBox[{"[", expr, "]"}];
POSTED BY: Gianluca Gorni

Thank you all,but the parentheses do not grow enough in the case of square brackets.

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POSTED BY: Ernesto Espinosa
Alexey Popkov
Alexey Popkov
Posted 6 years ago

According to this answer, you should specify SpanMaxSize -> Infinity styling directive:

wrapInSquareBrackets[expr_] := DisplayForm@StyleBox[RowBox[{"[", expr, "]"}], SpanMaxSize -> Infinity]

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POSTED BY: Alexey Popkov

Thank you very much Alexey. All perfect. It's a bit difficult to know everything.
POSTED BY: Ernesto Espinosa
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