----- Original Message ----- From: "Georg Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 10:48 AM Subject: Re: problem with multline nested inside a eqnarray
> Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: > > > I don't really care about the text box. > > But you should, because it makes a big difference. Oh a gotcha! I hate those. Still I've seen several examples of textboxes inside math environments (for example Cases) use to change font, so it surprises me to hear Latex should choke on that > > > I didn't ask for it, Lyx stuck it > > in there. > > You must have asked for it one way or the other, but you might not know that > you did. I can assure you I didn't :-) If you're saying that I asked for X and got Y well that's another matter altogther. I understand these things happen occasionally even in the best software. > > Are you saying that multline cannot be used inside any other > > math formula? > > Yes. > > > That's quite restrictive. > > Tell that the AMS people. > > > I didn't see any mention of that > > in the AMS documentation. Can you point me to where it says that > > Unfortunately I don't remember where I read that. A short glance shows that > it is not explicitely stated in amsldoc.pdf, but I know for sure that my > statement is true. Maybe it is mentioned in Herberts pages at > http://www.texnik.de, or in Uwes excellent LyX math guide (german only, at > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXMathebefehle). > No matter. I think I figured out a way. You have to use a split environment inside the eqnarray. Unf LyX doesn't seem to provide a split :-( but you can do it by embedding TeX in there. For the \\ use Insert|Special Character|Linebreak cheers > > Georg
