Brackets in LaTeX

If you use \left( and \right) in LaTeX it will automatically make the brackets larger, depending on what you put in between. Sometimes it doesn't do a good job and you should manually resize the brackets. These are, arranged from smaller to larger, your options:

• (, )
  
• \bigl(, \bigr)
  
• \Bigl(, \Bigr)
  
• \biggl(, \biggr)
  
• \Biggl(, \Biggr)