[Tuglist] Aligning formulae

[Wendy McKay]

The 
\usepackage{amsmath}
macros 
\begin{align}... \end{align}
\begin{alignat}{}... \end{alignat}
give much better spacing for math displays than

\begin{eqnarray}... \end{eqnarray}

IMHO Mathematicians should be encouraged to use the
amsmath package.  
In particular, for matrices:  {matrix} {bmatrix} {pmatrix}
environments....
{eqnarray} is not usually  needed and is often misused.

-wendy


On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Dr. S. Biswas wrote:

> Try in this way
> \begin{eqnarray}
> exp(..)& = &...................\nonumber\\
>        &   & ..................\nonumber\\
>        &   &...................\nonumber
> \end{eqnarray}
> I think it will come out. If in any row + does not come below +, put \, 
> to adjust the space. 
> 
> On 9 Jul 2002, David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> > "Dr. Dinesh Karia" <dineshjk@earth.planet.net.in> writes:
> > 
> > > Dear Indian TeXers,
> > > 
> > >     I seek your help for the following problem I am facing.
> > > 
> > > I want an alignment of the following type.
> > > 
> > > exp_1 = exp_2 + exp_3 + exp_4 + \cdots + exp_n
> > >           = exp'_2 + exp'_3 + exp'_4 + \cdots + exp''_n
> > >           = exp''_2 + exp''_3 + exp''_4 + \cdots + exp''_n
> > > 
> > > Where all = signs must be below each other. Also, respective + in each row
> > > should be aligned in respective columns. The length of each terms may be
> > > different.
> > > 
> > > I tried aligned environment but it did not work, as the \columsep is leaving
> > > too much of gaps between + signs and so they look like far separated
> > > columns.
> > 
> > Then use alignat.
> > 
> > -- 
> > David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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