%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
%%
%% Example 11-5-11 on page II-186 in "abraces --- Customizable over and under braces".
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% 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{tlc3examargin}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{123.0pt}

  % Shorten the vertical size of the example ...
  \AtBeginDocument{%
    \setlength\abovedisplayskip{0\abovedisplayskip}%
    \setlength\belowdisplayskip{0\belowdisplayskip}%
  }

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{abraces,amsmath}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\[ \aoverbrace[L1U6R]{x +
      \aunderbrace[l6D1r]{ \aoverbrace[,1,]{y+z} - a} } \]
\end{document}