Re: Aligning Typeset Math on Equal Signs
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- Subject: [mg121523] Re: Aligning Typeset Math on Equal Signs
- From: "Kevin J. McCann" <kjm at KevinMcCann.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:12:34 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Tom,
Nice example. I have a question though. Did you actually type all the
GridBox's and RowBox's in the example below? If so, I would submit that
this is a really, really slow way to get from here to there. Personally,
I would not be willing to type all that stuff just to get the equals
signs to line up. Maybe I am lazy, but there it is.
I would hope that I could type up the three equations as one usually
does and then execute some alignment command to make it "look nice".
Kevin
On 9/17/2011 6:25 AM, Tom wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>> How can align my typeset equations on the equal signs? I'm doing the typesetting in Text cells.
>>
>>> Gregory
>
> HI, there are always lots of ways to do things. Not sure if this is
> useful....
>
> Below is a text cell with three lined up equations. You can copy and
> paste this into Mathematica, then use the cell Menu and Show
> Expression to view it normally.
>
> Cell[TextData[Cell[BoxData[
> FormBox[GridBox[{
> {GridBox[{
> {
> RowBox[{
> RowBox[{
> RowBox[{"2", "x"}], "-",
> RowBox[{"3", "y"}]}], "=", "5"}]},
> {
> RowBox[{
> RowBox[{
> RowBox[{
> FractionBox["1", "2"], "x"}], "-", "y"}], "=", "1"}]},
> {
> RowBox[{
> RowBox[{
> RowBox[{"2", "x"}], "-", "5"}], "=", "12"}]}
> },
> GridBoxAlignment->{"Columns" -> {{"="}}}]}
> },
> GridBoxItemSize->{"Columns" -> {{
> Scaled[1]}}}], TraditionalForm]]]], "Text"]
>
>
>
>
> Hit control and return to add a new line
>
> I keep that handy for when I am typing systems, etc.
>
> TOM
>
- References:
- Aligning Typeset Math on Equal Signs
- From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny@videotron.ca>
- Aligning Typeset Math on Equal Signs