[OS X TeX] amsmath +/- lingmacros

[Peter Pagin]

Hi Roussanka,
philex.sty builds on linguex.sty and adds among other things some 
formatting options that makes it suitable for single line equations, 
even though no function for alignment of multiline equations.

Peter

Roussanka Loukanova wrote:
> Alan, thanks a lot: I didn't know about linguex.sty, up to now. I have 
> tried it and examples look very pretty, with cases and sub-cases, 
> consequently enumerated and indented as the math align environment. 
> They are very intuitive to use.
>
> I'll try linguex.sty more extensively for combinations with other 
> environments.
>
> Roussanka
>
> On Sun, 18 May 2008, Alan Munn wrote:
>
>> At 12:06 AM +0200 5/18/08, Roussanka Loukanova wrote:
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> Please, accept my apologies for this another yet off-list topic 
>>> question..
>>>
>>> I have trouble using amsmath and lingmacros together because 
>>> lingmacros sets its own counter for enumerated displays.
>>>
>>> I am typesetting a paper, in which I have math formulas and examples 
>>> of English sentences and need to have all them consecutively 
>>> enumerated.
>>>
>>> English sentences get nicely enumerated and left aligned, as is 
>>> customary in linguistics, with lingmacros.sty. But lingmacros.sty 
>>> uses a separate counter from that of amsmath.
>>
>> I would recommend using linguex.sty instead of lingmacros.
>>
>> To make the counters the same, add the following to your preamble 
>> (using linguex).
>>
>> \makeatletter
>> \let\c at ExNo=\c at equation
>> \makeatother
>>
>> Then you can intersperse equations and example sentences.
>>
>> If you want to continue to use lingmacros, you can make the 
>> lingmacros counter use the equation counter in the same way:
>>
>> \makeatletter
>> \let\c at enums=\c at equation
>> \makeatother
>>
>> However, because lingmacros uses a regular list, it indents the 
>> number, and you'd need to mess around
>> to get the numbers to line up (so that your example numbers are 
>> indented the same distance as your equation numbers.)
>>
>> In principle you could do this with:
>>
>> \setlength{\leftmargini}{18pt}
>>
>> But this will have the effect of making all lists have this indent, 
>> which may not be what you want, if you have other 
>> itemize/enumerate/description lists.
>>
>> This is why using linguex would probably be easier.
>>
>> Alan
>>
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