I want a environment for displaying rows and columns of mathematical expressions, such that the contents of each column is centered, and the columns are equally spaced. Rows must have optional equation numbers, as with the align*
environment.
I posted a similar question a few months ago, answered here: Standard math environment for equally-spaced columns of expressions?
Although I accepted the answer there at the time, it has some shortcomings: I have to specify in advance how many columns I'm going to need (unlike the existing align*
environment, for example), and it doesn't allow me to have equation numbers for rows in a straightforward way.
Edit on 3rd April 2012: The syntax has to be like this:
\begin{newenvironment}
A & B & C
\\
\nonumber
f & g & h
\end{newenvironment}
This should produce two lines of displayed mathematics in three columns, all equally-spaced from the page margins and from each other. The first line should have an equation number, the second shouldn't.