%% %% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed %% %% Example 11-5-17 on page II-189 in "underoverlap --- Partly overlapping horizontal braces". %% %% 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{tlc3examargin} \pagestyle{empty} \setcounter{page}{6} \setlength\textwidth{135.0pt} % Shorten the vertical size of the example ... \AtBeginDocument{% \setlength\abovedisplayskip{.1\abovedisplayskip}% \setlength\belowdisplayskip{.1\belowdisplayskip}% } %StartShownPreambleCommands \usepackage{underoverlap,amsmath} %StopShownPreambleCommands \begin{document} \begin{gather} a + \UOLoverbrace{b +}[c + d]^{\text{both}} \UOLunderline{+ f}_{\text{fine}} + g \\ a + \UOLoverline{b +}[c + d]^{\text{wrong!!}} + f + g \\ a + \UOLoverbrace{b +}[c + d]^{\text{clearly wrong}} + f \UOLunderbrace{+ g}_{\text{too!}} \end{gather} \end{document}