# amsart and enumerate environment

I'm using the amsart documentclass. Now the equation numbers are aligned to the left, I'm okay with that but what bothers me is the following: If I have equations in an enumerate environment it centers the equations with respect to the whole page. To me that doesn't look very good. How do I center the equation with respect to the body of the enumerate environment?

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@Jonas: Welcome to TeX.SX! Have a look at How to enumerate equations. There are solutions for itemize environments which may be used for enumerate environments as well. –  Stefan Kottwitz Mar 7 '11 at 15:54
@Jonas: Or do you still want the equations centered, but centered in the part of the text without the additional left margin? –  Hendrik Vogt Mar 7 '11 at 17:02
@Hendrik: Exactly, that is what I want! –  Jonas Teuwen Mar 7 '11 at 20:46
@Jonas: OK, that's what I thought. I've taken the liberty to try and clarify your question a bit. –  Hendrik Vogt Mar 7 '11 at 20:54
Does one of the solutions in “How can I center text/math inside a list environment?” work with amsart? –  Caramdir Mar 7 '11 at 23:37

As long as you don't want the equations to be numbered, you can use the following:

\documentclass{amsart}

%--------------------------------------------------------------------
\newenvironment{shiftequation}
{%
\par\noindent\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
\begin{equation*}
}
{%
\end{equation*}
\end{minipage}
}
%--------------------------------------------------------------------
\begin{document}

Here's some text. Here's some text. Here's some text. Here's some
text. Here's some text. Here's some text. Here's some text. Here's
some text. Here's some text.
\begin{equation*}
\sin^{2} x + \cos^{2} x =
\int_{0}^{1} \bigl(\sin x + \cos x\bigr)^{4}\, dx +
\int_{-1}^{1} \bigl(\log(x^{3}) + \sin^{5} (x^{5})\bigr)^{4}\,dx
\end{equation*}

\begin{enumerate}
\item Here's some text. Here's some text. Here's some text. Here's
some text. Here's some text. Here's some text. Here's some
text. Here's some text. Here's some text.
\begin{shiftequation}
\sin^{2} x + \cos^{2} x =
\int_{0}^{1} \bigl(\sin x + \cos x\bigr)^{4}\, dx +
\int_{-1}^{1} \bigl(\log(x^{3}) + \sin^{5} (x^{5})\bigr)^{4}\,dx
\end{shiftequation}
\item Here's some text. Here's some text. Here's some text. Here's
some text. Here's some text. Here's some text. Here's some
text. Here's some text. Here's some text.
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}


Alas, if you try the same thing with a numbered display (i.e., changing equation* to equation), then the equation numbers line up with the left margin of the text inside the enumerate environment, rather than with the left edge of the overall text area.

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Great! Thanks. –  Jonas Teuwen Mar 28 '11 at 22:24