On Sat, 19 May 2018 01:04:31 -0400 Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> wrote:
> When in a math display equation, if you press "ctrl + return", LyX > will turn it into a multi-line equation. I think the default is an > "align" environment. To do this, LyX tries "split" your current > equation into two parts. For example, if the equation is: > > y = 3x + 5 > > LyX guesses that you want "y" on the left box, and "= 3x + 5" in the > right box. In other words, it splits on the "=" sign. > > Do you use this feature? Are there any improvements that you can think > of? I would prefer to have it go into the eqnarry environment rather than AMS align, or at least default to three columns rather than 2, with the = in the middle. That way, following lines will have the = sign aligned, which IMO is how it should be. I haven't looked at the code yet, but I'm considering trying to > improve the algorithm for splitting. My personal use case is that I > often have expressions of the form > > P(X < 3) = 2 > > Currently LyX splits this on the "<". Well, you could prevent that by replacing "P(X<3)=2" with "P\left(X<3\right)=2", which is easy to do in LyX. It also looks better. I would like to have the > algorithm prioritize a relation character that is outside of > delimiters. But LyX doesn't understand them as delimiters unless they are written as such. -- David L. Johnson Department of Mathematics Lehigh University
