Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:49:41 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.9/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h6HJnNcH001141 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:49:39 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6HJhJmp016214; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:43:19 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C34C9C.8FF03880" Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id h6GM0Agf028243; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:42:49 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 2309 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:42:49 +0200 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id h6HJgnM9006711 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:42:49 +0200 Received: from A1.atlis.com (host5.atlis.com [216.181.97.5]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6HJhCGl011642 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:43:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from atlis.com (host-216-153-178-55.har.choiceone.net [216.153.178.55]) by A1.atlis.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h6HJiXp05629 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:44:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wadams@atlis.com) In-Reply-To: <200307171933.42136.tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> Organization: Atlis Systems, Inc. (301) 578-4200 info@atlis.com Return-Path: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Jul 2003 19:49:41.0304 (UTC) FILETIME=[901E9B80:01C34C9C] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-Spam-Score: -3.3 () IN_REP_TO Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: weak alignments (was Re: XML, UTF-8 and TeX engines) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:42:55 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: weak alignments (was Re: XML, UTF-8 and TeX engines) Thread-Index: AcNMnJBDpzpRhv2WSGugnuJShvCKvA== From: "William Adams" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4692 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C34C9C.8FF03880 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Timothy Murphy asked: > I would have thought amsmath had align/gather etc > for every conceivable situation. > What exactly do you mean by lining up "parts of equations"? The chapter was one explaining how to work out square roots, and it had displayed fractions w/ varying numbers of digits, and I was trying to get (say) a three digit fraction on the first page lined up with a four digit fraction w/ two blank columns after it on the last page, something like: 1 2 3 Completed root x ----- 4 5 6 (many intervening pages w/ similar alignments) 7 8 9 0 Extracted root y ------- 1 2 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 Completed root ----------- 7 8 9 0 1 2 Notice how the last column of the ``Completed root'' lines up (at the page margin) for both. If amsmath align offered a way to do that, I couldn't find it :( William -- William Adams, publishing specialist voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708 www.atlis.com ------_=_NextPart_001_01C34C9C.8FF03880 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: weak alignments (was Re: XML, UTF-8 and TeX = engines)

Timothy Murphy asked:
> I would have thought amsmath had align/gather = etc
> for every conceivable situation.
> What exactly do you mean by lining up = "parts of equations"?

The chapter was one explaining how to work out square = roots, and it had
displayed fractions w/ varying numbers of digits, and = I was trying to
get (say) a three digit fraction on the first page = lined up with a four
digit fraction w/ two blank columns after it on the = last page,
something like:

          &nbs= p;            = ;     1 2 3
Completed root    = x        -----
          &nbs= p;            = ;     4 5 6


(many intervening pages w/ similar alignments)

          &nbs= p;           7 8 9 = 0
Extracted root    y  = -------
          &nbs= p;           1 2 4 = 5

          &nbs= p;           1 2 3 4 5 = 6
Completed root       = -----------
          &nbs= p;           7 8 9 0 1 = 2

Notice how the last column of the ``Completed root'' = lines up (at the
page margin) for both.

If amsmath align offered a way to do that, I couldn't = find it :(

William

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