# Outside of margin Equation

I am working with Lyx and am trying to fit an equation in my margin as it is getting out side of the margin as can be seen in the below image.

I have tried to use the multiline enviornment but it still did not work. I have also looked at different questions but were not helpful.

Below is a screen shot of how I am inputting the formula and what I have used in LYX.

• You can use align, load package mathtools , split the equation after the = sign and use \MoveEqLeft for the first line. – Bernard Sep 2 '19 at 16:43
• @Bernard - what do you mean by use MoveEqLeft because when I did it, the equation moved all to the left which is even worse now – Annalise Azzopardi Sep 2 '19 at 16:50
• It has to be used on a line by line basis, for those which need an emulated indent – Bernard Sep 2 '19 at 16:53
• Please at least provide the formula code and also the necessary starting \documentclass and ending \end{document}. Although your question is essentially about breaking equation into multiple lines, it is helpful that you provide source code to save others the typing. – Ruixi Zhang Sep 2 '19 at 16:53
• I'm surprised that the multline environment didn't work. But you said multiline; that's entirely different. – barbara beeton Sep 2 '19 at 19:23

Here two possibilities: one with the aligned environment, nested in equation, ans using\MoveEqLeftfrommathtools, the other usesflalignand an *adhoc* alignment point. Both use the medium-size fractions (\mfrac) fromnccmathfor the numerical fractions, as I think it looks better:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{nccmath}
\usepackage{mathtools}

\begin{document}

\label{off-margin} \begin{aligned} \MoveEqLeft -\ell (\beta _{0},\boldsymbol{\beta }) + \lambda \|\boldsymbol{\beta }\|_{1} = \\ & \biggl[-\frac{1}{n}\biggl(\sum_{i = 1}^{n} (\beta _{0}x_{i0} + \mathbf{x}^T\boldsymbol{\beta })y_i-\log(1 + \exp(\beta _{0}x_{i0} + \mathbf{x}^T\boldsymbol{\beta }))\biggr)\biggr] \\ \text{where} &\phantom{ + } \boldsymbol{\beta } = (\beta _{1},\dots, \beta _{p})^{T}\text{ and } x_{i0} = 1 \text{ for all }i. \end{aligned}

Next, we need to show that the negative log-likelihood function is convex. By showing convexity it means that a local minimum exists which is the global minimum…

\begin{flalign}
\label{off-margin1}
-\ell (\beta _{0},\boldsymbol{\beta }) & + \lambda \|\boldsymbol{\beta }\|_{1} = \notag \\
&\phantom{ + } \biggl[-\mfrac{1}{n}\biggl(\sum_{i = 1}^{n} (\beta _{0}x_{i0} + \mathbf{x}^T\boldsymbol{\beta })y_i-\log(1 + \exp(\beta _{0}x_{i0} + \mathbf{x}^T\boldsymbol{\beta }))\biggr)\biggr] \\%
\text{where} &\phantom{ + } \boldsymbol{\beta } = (\beta _{1},\dots, \beta _{p})^{T}\text{ and } x_{i0} = 1 \text{ for all }i. \notag
\end{flalign}

\end{document}


• I would like to thank you for the above however this is still not working. My document class is book (standard class). I don't know if this impacts the whole thing. I will add in my question some screen shots of how the lyx write is being shown – Annalise Azzopardi Sep 3 '19 at 15:21
• used this link: and seems it is working tex.stackexchange.com/questions/365948/… – Annalise Azzopardi Sep 3 '19 at 15:34
• What does ‘not working’ mean, exactly? Does the result still overflow in the margin? Whether it is the book or the article class has no importance here. The only problem I can imagine would come from your real margins, which I don't know. – Bernard Sep 3 '19 at 16:23
• Basically what was happening the formula was still going outside my margins. But I have sorted it usng the AMS Multline Equation – Annalise Azzopardi Sep 3 '19 at 16:28
• I agree multline` should work, but I don't understand why an aligned solution doesn't. – Bernard Sep 3 '19 at 16:34