I am trying to figure out what Lyx's version of the AMS align environment is supposed to do. According to the AMS documentation, align can be used to produce either a single column or a multicolumn of relational terms, in which in each column the terms are aligned by the relational operator (e.g an = sign). However, when you first create it, Lyx's AMS align produces a 2 element array. I thought that maybe I needed to add an extra column, that does indeed align the relational operators but the elements of the term are all right justified, which makes the right hand side elements all line up very strangely. Can anyone explain how the Lyx align element is actually *supposed* to be used? I could not find any actual description of it - the Lyx documentation simply refers you to AMS's documentatoin of them. (The eqnarray environment appears to be OK but I heard its not the best one to use).
cheers
