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Date:         Wed, 2 May 90 14:28:00 PDT
Reply-To: LaTeX-L Mailing list <LATEX-L@DHDURZ1.uucp>
From: DHOSEK@HMCVAX.bitnet
Subject:      Re: Blank lines in math, array, eqnarray, et al
To: Rainer Schoepf <BK4@DHDURZ1.uucp>
Status: R
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The following example shows why blank lines are not permitted
in math mode:


Back in the earlier part of this century, Albert Einstein came up
with his famous formula $E=mc^2/\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2} which has amazed
many in the following years.

Of course...
[imagine dozens of paragraphs of straight prose here followed
by:]

Of course, most people know Einstein's formula as $E=mc^2$.


Think about where LaTeX would flag an error if blank lines were
permitted in math mode.

I think that an adequate and, in the long run, better solution
would be to change the message given when a blank line is
encountered in math mode to indicate that they are not indicated
in that context.

-dh