Z, You can increase the point size, and thus the proportional thickness of the brace, in Special > Equations > Equations > Equations Sizes (or Esc, p, e). For horizontal braces modify Level 1 equation sizes.
FrameMaker Help also gives this valuable advice: To change the character format for functions, numbers, strings, and variables: 1. Create the character format you want (see "The Paragraph and Character Designers" on page 94). 2. On the Equations palette, choose Equation Fonts from the Equations pop-up menu. 3. Choose the character format from the Functions, Numbers, Strings, or Variables pop-up menu, and click Set. The pop-up menus contain the formats stored in the Character Catalog. Baruch ******************* On Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:08 PM, you wrote: Hi, Baruch. Okay, I tried your response and this worked well enough that I think I can make do for what I am trying. Thanks! But ... a comment and questions that might help me do yet better: 1. I used the Color > Definition > ... to make a new color - it is not under the Special > ... (you did note that you had not done this recently, so I am merely recording this here for other people :) ). 2. The brace length appears to have stepped settings - it doesn't increase linearly with the text as nicely as I might like (to get a more control on the size). 3. I tried to change the font size, and that helped a bit, but the brace becomes pretty thin and faint then. 4. Applying a bold to the text (while the delimiter brace is also selected) does not change the underbrace or overbrace at all though (as far as I can tell). Any recommendation on whether this brace can be changed to look a bit "heavier" or more curved, etc? It seems to be quite independent of the font ... Thanks much again! Z
