# [texhax] Capturing Display Math Mode

Vafa Khalighi vafakhlgh at gmail.com
Sat Dec 25 15:47:09 CET 2010

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Patrick Rutkowski <rutski89 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm trying to write myself a little calculus reference sheet, and I started
> with something like this:
>
> =============================================
> Leibniz notation: $${\rm d}f \over {\rm d}x$$
> \bye
> =============================================
>
> The trouble is that the displayed df/dx get placed smack in the center of
> the page, and it wastes a lot of whitespace on the side. I want to cram all
> of these calculus notes into just one page, so all of the whitespace which
> display-math-mode wastes is a big no-no; yet, I still do need the visual
> style which display-math-mode offers, formatting this whole reference sheet
> in just in-line horizontal math mode would look awful.
>
>
>
What do you meen whhen you say, it looks awful?

$\displaystyle {\rm d}f \over {\rm d}x$
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