Andre Poenitz wrote:
>
> Would anybody please help:
>
> I need a (more or less complete) list of math "environments" together with
> some description of their "special properties".
>
> Something like:
>
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> $...$ - inlined
> \(...\) - inlined differs from $...$ by ???
\begin{math} ... \end{math}
always the same inlinemath, no difference
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> \[...\] - displayed, numbered unless \nonumber given somewhere
\begin{displaymath} ... \end{displaymath}
by default with nonumber
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\begin{equation} ... \end{equation}
displayed and by default with number
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> \begin{eqnarray} - displayed, possibly multiple lines, numbered,...
> \begin{eqnarray*} - displayed, possibly multiple lines, notnumbered,...
displayed with an implicit \begin{array}{rcl} ...\end{array}
steucture is ..&..&..\\
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now all of the following depends to AMS !!!
all possible with the nonumber version *
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\begin{align}
.. & ..\\
\end{align}
better spacing than \begin{eqnarray}
implicit \begin{array}{rl} ... \end{array}
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\begin{alignat}{n}
.. & .. & .. & .. ... n-times the & ..\\
\end[alignat}
called align at several places
implicit \begin{array}{rlrlrl...} ... \end{array}
same with \xalignat and \xxalignat, which are kind of spaced
out version
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\begin{gather}
...\\
\end[gather}
no vertical alignment
implicit \begin{array}{l} ... \end{array}
kind of mutiline
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\begin{multline}
...\\
...\\
\end{multline}
no vertical alignment
same as equation, only ONE number, therefore no *version
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\begin{split}
.. & ..\\
& ..\\ <-- empty left side!!
& ..
end{split}
vertical alignment for long equations
implicit \begin{array}{rl} ... \end{array}
kind of mutiline notnumbert and no *version
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hope this helps
Herbert
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