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jfbu
username_0
Possibly nobody found this odd in decades, but here it is:

![Capture d’écran 2020-02-06 à 15 37 52](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2589111/73946874-e804ba00-48f6-11ea-9269-3fe821d9086c.png)

Opinion-based for sure, but I wish this determinant was rendered with a bit more space between contents and borders.

## Minimal example showing the bug

```latex
\RequirePackage{latexbug}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\begin{document}
\[
  \begin{vmatrix}
    1&1&1&1&1&0&0\\
    0&1&1&1&1&1&0\\
    0&0&1&1&1&1&1\\
    4&3&2&1&0&0&0\\
    0&4&3&2&1&0&0\\
    0&0&4&3&2&1&0\\
    0&0&0&4&3&2&1
  \end{vmatrix}
\]
\end{document}
```


## Log file (required) and possibly PDF file  

[testvmatrix.log](https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/files/4165611/testvmatrix.log)
vmatrix environment sets in output very little spacing between vertical bars and contents
issue
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FrankMittelbach
username_1
I do agree with your sentiments I would also prefer slightly more space. And if we overhaul the amsmath commands making some of them configurable in such cases is  something on a lonterm agenda, but it is nothing we can or would change in amsmath as it is now as that would invalidate a huge number of documents from the last 3 decades. So this will go into a longterm bucket
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