{align} is an environment provided by math packages that permits multiple related equations to be aligned at a common reference point, usually a sign of relation. For general question about aligning document elements, use {horizontal-alignment} or {vertical-alignment} instead.

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Collectively aligning multiple align environments

I am using amsmath, and I want to be able to break a mathematical derivation into multiple align environments while maintaining their collective alignment. In particular, I would like to horizontally ...
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Supressing = on a line in the align environment

How do I produce the following in align environment? \begin{eqnarray*}& & abcd \\ &=& defg\\ &=& hijk \end{eqnarray*} I try \begin{align*}& abcd \\ &= defg\\ ...
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How to align equations

I am trying to write a set of equations similar to some found in a book I am reading. Below is how the book has formatted the equations: and here is what I have so far: How can I align my ...
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Error: Extra }, or forgotten \right in align environment

I'm getting errors in the align environment that I'm not getting for the exact same line that compiles without error in the equation one and I can't figure it out. Can someone shed some light on this? ...
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Align values in bmatrix

Is it possible to renew the bmatrix environment to have alignment? I would like the following vectors to show aligned: \begin{bmatrix} -0.505 & \\ -0.141 & \\ 0.144 & \\ 0.839 & ...
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amsmath's intertext and labeling

I have an align environement with intertext: \usepackage{amsmath,mathtools} \begin{align*} x&=f(z)\cos\alpha\\ y&=f(z)\sin\alpha \shortintertext{with} f(z)&=\ldots \end{align*} However ...
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Equation align two column to one column with page width

I was trying to format the following expression using align. However, I need it in two column. Of all the equations, one is a long expression and Hence I added \rlap. The problem is the lengthy ...
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Argument of \text@ has an extra } \end{align*}

Good day, I am using the following code: \documentclass[]{report} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{breqn} \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage{amstext} \hypersetup{linktocpage} ...
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Align summation symbols inside an align environment

I have the following piece of code: \documentclass[]{article} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{mathtools} \usepackage{amsfonts} \begin{document} \begin{align*} A &= ...
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Aligned equation which can break through pages [duplicate]

I'm writing long sequences of aligned math equations, and LaTeX interprete them as single, unbreakable objects... which is Ok if the equation is nowhere near the end of the page. Q: Is there a way to ...
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Using the flush left align environment flalign

When using the flalign, I either get LHS and the = on te far left and the RHS on the far right. \begin{flalign} x & = & 1 \end{flalign} Or I the equation centers itself when I try ...
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Unable to split a long equation

I want this equation to break into different lines at each of the line breaks indicated below. f = c_{A1}x_{A1}+c_{A2}x_{A2}+c_{A3}x_{A3}+c_{B1}x_{B1}+c_{B2}x_{B2}+c_{B3}x_{B3} \\ + ...
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multi-alignments, any better solutions?

Please see my questions in the codes: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,mathtools} \begin{document} I am not sure align at the equal sign is a good idea, it looks weird to me. ...
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Exhaustive Information about text alignment in Tabular

The purpose of this question is colleting the exhaustive information about text alignment in tabular environment and it's derivatives. As base, let us use the possibilities of Microsot Word's tools. ...
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Problem with ntheorem, align and \qedhere

I would like to use the align environment inside a proof with ntheorem, but I have trouble with \qedhere. I was guided by this (http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/2280/30325) code, and replaced \[ by ...
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How do I include a .pdf_tex file in the align environment?

I am writing a math document which contains several pictures. My pictures are .pdf_tex files from Inkscape, and usually \begin{figure} \centering \input{<name>.pdf_tex} \end{figure} is fine ...
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Formula label outside of formula

I want to label a block of equations like that: The "AB" should not inflict the central alignment of the formula. I saw it a lot, but do not succeed on my own. Do I need to build boxes? I used the ...
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“align” inside “table” because of table caption - how to do pagebreak?

I have a table: \begin{table} \begin{align} \nonumber b_{1} & = 0,200 & \beta_{1} & = z \\ \nonumber b_{2} & = 0,022 ...
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Prevent multiple equation numbers when using \allowdisplaybreak with align

I have a very long equation of the following format \begingroup \allowdisplaybreaks \begin{align} a &= very long expression here\\ + & another long expression here\\ + & another long ...
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Numbering of displayed math without using the equation environment

I know about align and equation environments, and tend to use them most of the time, but sometimes I like to have more flexibility within an array of equations, like better control on justification ...
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Aligning using flushleft and flushright

I am trying to create one column to the left side by side with another column to the right. The column to the left is labeled "Examples of like terms:" and the column to the right is labeled "Examples ...
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Aligning equation with another equation after text [duplicate]

I was just wondering, if it was possible to align equations if there are text between them ? I mean, if you have several equations right after each other you can use the \begin{align} command with ...
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Aligning a split up equation not at equal sign

I currently have the following equation: \begin{align} \begin{split} \left| \Psi \left( t \right) \right\rangle _{I}^{3}&=-\frac{1}{{{\hbar}^{2}}}\int_{0}^{t}{\hat{H}_{1}^{I}\left( t' ...
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Bad formating with align + cases and long equations

This is what I have so far: Formatting in section 1 is a joke. I can't even read the cases. Under section 2 I cheated with a manual line break \\ and a parbox. Still the result disgusts me. ...
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LaTeX keeps popping me the fixed error [closed]

I have a weird problem. I created a matrix: \documentclass[12pt]{report} \usepackage{czech} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage[dvipdfm]{pstricks} \usepackage{longtable} \usepackage{color} ...
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Automatic arrangement of equations with comments

This question led to a new package: conteq I am writing a paper with multiple chains of equations or inequalities, with optional explanations. Depending on the size of the equations, I use one ...
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Multiline equation with cases

I am trying to get a system of equations, that will have cases only on some of the equations. I made this: \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{mathtools} ...
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Name of length for equation number indent if [leqno] is set [closed]

I got a weird phenomenon as shown in the picture below. The equation numbering is indented. I tried the same thing in a fresh document and it produces the result I am looking for. For the other ...
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How to edit the length of a color box?

I've typed my Resume and Im using a color box, with a line underneath it. However the grey colored box doesn't reach the full length of the page width. \documentclass[letterpaper,11pt]{article} ...
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Ignoring specific ampersand formatting on a specific line of an align block

I want to typeset a number of equations with some alignment constraints, but I want to partially ignore them on certain lines. An example formatted text might look like the following when it's ...
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How to align a set of multiline equations

I am trying to align a set of long equations, that are themselves align environments as most of them are spreading on multiple lines. Currently I just have a sequence of align environments, with ...
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How to get to use {align} with an unusual document class?

So I'm required to use a particular documentclass, "llncs", which for some reason is preventing me from using {align}. Is there an alternative that I can use? The beginning of my tex file ...
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Cross reference to align

What I want to do is to make a cross reference to program (P) and still be able to make cross references to each separate line in the alignment. \begin{align} (P)\quad \min ...
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Custom glossary environment improvement

This is a followup question about the code provided by Nicola Talbot in this question: Automated generation of equation key TL;DR: Defines new environment alignglos which can be used to wrap ...
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Horizontal alignment across nested aligned

Is there a way to left align the first 2 rows with the last one? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{equation*} \left\{{\begin{aligned} &\left.{\begin{aligned} &A+B=X\\ ...
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Aligning equality sign with overset text

I'm typing a logic definition within an align environment that uses \overset{def}{=} from the amsmath environment. However, the new sign is aligned vertically based on the equality sign, and not on ...
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Problem with beamer's \pause in alignments

I have the following code, (edit:) now without aligned. \documentclass{beamer} \mode<presentation> { \setbeamercovered{transparent} } \begin{document} \begin{frame} \[ \begin{cases} ...
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Setting a column of an align environment at a fixed distance from the margin

I'd like to set proofs in the style shown in this answer but with the right column at a constant distance from the left margin, so that the explanations show up consistently located in the many proofs ...
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Two columns of equations, aligned and just one number per column

I'm writing a two-column document, and I want to display two sets of large equations floating at the top. Each equation set should be aligned within the same column, and only the two top equations ...
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Place Image and Break Pages

I want to obtain the following format: Text Text Text Text endofpage image newpage Text Text Text Text I have three pages in total. The image occupies whole page and the text in newpage is ...
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Is it possible to remove chapter number from align environment? [duplicate]

Basically I have written a proof using the align environment in a new .tex file and the numbers in the proof came like this (how I want them): Line1 (1) Line2 (2) Line3 (3) Now I've ...
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Tikz Scaling and Positioning

I cannot scale the first picture. scale=0.6 does not work. Also I cannot vertically align the picture. I want top of text and top of figure are same. See figures in the following examples. ...
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TikZ object misaligned with main document: slightly shifted to the right

The TikZ picture is not aligned with the main content of the document. It slightly shifts to the right. Notice how the words go outside the frame on the right side. Any hints on how to correct this ...
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Multicolumn/multirow inside align

Is there a way to use \multicolumn or \multirow inside an array environment which is inside align environment? For instance, the following piece of code gives me an error. What is the way around this? ...
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Numbering a set of horizontally distributed equations

Having different horizontally distributed equations inside an align environment, only lines are numbered, but not individual equations. How can the left equations be numbered using subequations? ...
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aligned environment of amsmath vs array environment

Today I found out the existence of the aligned environment of the amsmath package. However, I can't see the advantage of using it instead of the array environment from the example provided in ...
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How can I number a few equations together

i would like to write few equations, but all the equations will get only once numbered and in the middle (right side) of the equations. e.q. if i write 3 equations, the number will be to the right of ...
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some \newcommand instructions not working

I have created some new short command using \newcommand in the following example: \documentclass[12pt,twoside,a4paper]{book} \usepackage{enumerate,amsmath} \newcommand{\ba}{\begin{array}} ...
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How to align 'parts' of these equations?

I have a set of equations given by the following code: \begin{equation} \label{eqn:eraserStart} \max \, d \end{equation} \begin{equation} a_t \in \{0,1\} \, \forall t \in T \end{equation} ...
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how to align texts in equation cases

I need to make an equation case with text following it. That text should be displayed in the middle of the two cases. This is my code: \begin{eqnarray}\label{eq13} a_k = \begin{cases} 1 & ...

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