%% %% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004) %% %% Example 8-3-4 on page 487. %% %% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, %% Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley %% %% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions %% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 %% of this license or (at your option) any later version. %% %% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details. %% \documentclass{ttctexa} \pagestyle{empty} \setcounter{page}{6} \setlength\textwidth{183.0pt} \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 enough text to ensure that there is at least one full line below the matrix. \end{document}