Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm getting strange results when I use
the cases environment in Tufte-LaTeX documents with the
mathdesign package. Instead of  enter image description here  I
get  enter image description here  Is there something I can do
to get rid of that huge brace?    %The following appears to be
the source of my problems; removing this line produces an
acceptable result   r^{j-1} & ;j\le n\\ f\cdot r^{j-(n+1)} &
;j>n  share|improve this question The fix is simply to set
\delimiterfactor=912. That seems to be the largest value that
solves the problem. Tufte-LaTeX must set it to something larger.
–  raxacoricofallapatorius Jul 8 '12 at 22:21 add comment  1
Answer  up vote 5 down vote accepted  The big brace you get is
built from smaller pieces and that's the minimum size as the
following minimal document shows:
\def\test#1{$\left\{\rule{0pt}{#1pt}(#1\textrm{pt})\right.$ }
enter image description here  Up to the 18pt case the brace is a
unique glyph. Beyond that point TeX must build the brace