%% %% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed %% %% Example 11-3-3 on page II-155 in "amsmath, mathtools --- The matrix environments". %% %% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach %% %% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions %% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c %% of this license or (at your option) any later version. %% %% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details. %% \documentclass{tlc3exa} \pagestyle{empty} \setcounter{page}{6} \setlength\textwidth{159.0pt} %StartShownPreambleCommands \usepackage{amsmath} %StopShownPreambleCommands \begin{document} To show the effect of the matrix on surrounding lines inside a paragraph, we put it here $\left(\begin{smallmatrix} -1 & 0 \\ 0 & -1 \end{smallmatrix}\right)$ and follow it with some more text on the next line. \end{document}