On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:48:55 -0400 (EDT) Aditya Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Morgan Brassel wrote: > > > Concerning multline, I only read the specification given in amsldoc.pdf: > > "3.3 Split equations without alignment". Multline does not support > > alignment, > > so you can't put '&' inside it, only '\\'. All it does is cut the equation > > into several lines: the first is left aligned, the last is right aligned, > > and > > all the intermediate are centered. I don't if this is sufficient as an > > explanation. Please let me know if I can help or test. And thank you for > > your > > time! > > So, will this user interface be enough: > > \startformula \startmultline > \NC line 1 \FR > \NC line 2 \MR > \NC line 3 \LR > \stopmultline \stopformula I would change myself the name for the environment from multline to multiline, we don't have to rely on the short command names as old TeX packages did for many macros. > Lines with \FR are flush left, lines with \MR are centered, and lines with > \LR are right flushed. (First row, middle row, last row; as in tables). > multline also has \pushleft and \pushright with go against the ConTeXt way > of things. > > It is also possible to just have \NR at each row, and let ConTeXt figure > out the correct flushing. That will involve a two-pass algorithm, and I > will give that a try. I think you should use NR at the end of a line and not different commands for the first, the last and all other lines. You could change the alignment of each line with \NC[align=...], this will fit to the normal commands for tables. > The other thing is placement of equation numbers. It is easy to implement > multline so that equation number is always centered. I am not sure if the > current ConTeXt mechanism allows for equation number to be placed on the > bottom (similar to tbtags options). Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
