can somebody tell me the difference between the aligned and the split environment? I couldn't discover it.
I read that split doesn't allow more than one horizontal alignment, but this isn't true (see the test below).
So what's the reason that split exists?
Thanks Uwe
testfile: -------------------------------------------------------------- %% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/. %% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing. \documentclass[12pt,a4paper,english,fleqn]{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \pagestyle{empty} \setcounter{secnumdepth}{4} \setcounter{tocdepth}{4} \setlength\parskip{\medskipamount} \setlength\parindent{0pt} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amssymb}
\makeatletter
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
split:\[
\begin{split}2x+3 & =7 & 2x+3-3 & =7-3\\
2x & =4 & \frac{2x}{2} & =\frac{4}{2}\\
2x & =2\end{split}
\]
aligned:\[ \begin{aligned}2x+3 & =7 & 2x+3-3 & =7-3\\ 2x & =4 & \frac{2x}{2} & =\frac{4}{2}\\ 2x & =2\end{aligned} \]
\end{document}
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