Hi Henri,
Thanks for your solution. This is indeed providing the functionality I was
after.
I need to pick up a good Tex book one of these days to try and master those
commands :-)
Regards,
Jan Willem Flamma
> On 25 aug. 2016, at 13:52, Henri Menke <henrime...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> if I understood you correctly, this should produce what you are after.
>
> \starttext
>
> \startformula
> E = mc^2
> \stopformula
>
> \startformula
> \startalign[m=3,align={middle},distance=0pt plus 1 fil]
> \NC \rlap{\text{Text1}} \NC\NC E=mc^2 \NR
> \NC \rlap{\text{This is an explanation}} \NC\NC
> E=\sqrt{p^2c^2+m^2c^4} \NR
> \NC \rlap{\text{This is a longer explanation}} \NC\NC \left(\beta
> mc^2+c\left(\sum _{n=1}^3 \alpha_n p_n \right)\right) \psi(x,t) = i \hbar
> \frac{\partial \psi(x,t)}{\partial t} \NR
> \stopalign
> \stopformula
>
> \stoptext
>
> The inner workings of this solution are quite messy. You *have* to have the
> \NC\NC between text and formula and the formula must not contain any further
> alignment points; text has to be enclosed in \rlap. As you can see it
> centers the formula unconditionally and just flows into the text if it
> doesn't fit. Just don't do it like this.
>
> Cheers, Henri
>
> On 08/24/2016 05:38 PM, Jan Willem Flamma wrote:
>> Hi Otared,
>>
>> I apologize for not explaining it better.
>>
>> Maybe the below example will illustrate better what I’m trying to achieve.
>> - The first formula is perfectly aligned.
>> - The bottom three formulas do not line up with the top formula
>>
>> I’m trying to align all formulas regardless of the amount of text added to
>> the left of the formula.
>> Of course I could add \qquad or \quad to try and manually align but
>> basically I’m interested to know if a fool proof method exist that aligns
>> all without using \\qquad or \quad
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> % Mid-aligned formula
>> \startformula
>> E = mc^2
>> \stopformula
>>
>> \setupformulas[align=flushleft]
>> \startformula
>> \startalign[n=3,align={left,middle}]
>> \NC \text{Text1}
>> \NC \qquad \NC E = mc^2 \NR
>> \NC \text{This is an explanation} \NC \qquad
>> \NC E = mc^2 \NR
>> \NC \text{This is a longer explanation} \NC \qquad \NC E =
>> mc^2 \NR
>> \stopalign
>> \stopformula
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> Thanks
>> JW
>>
>>> On 24 aug. 2016, at 10:21, Jan Willem Flamma <jwfregis...@icloud.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Otared,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the (very quick) reply.
>>>
>>> I’ve experiemented with that solution as well. However, the text can vary
>>> in length and this would required a lot of tweaking to try and get the
>>> formulas mid-aligned.
>>> I’m trying to find a fool proof solution that will get the formula
>>> mid-aligned in all cases (and hope it exists).
>>>
>>> In any case, thanks for your suggestion!
>>>
>>> Jan Willem
>>>
>>>> On 24 aug. 2016, at 10:10, Otared Kavian <ota...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Jan,
>>>>
>>>> You can specify a certain horizontal distance in the second column, as in
>>>> the following:
>>>>
>>>> %%% begin example.tex
>>>> \starttext
>>>>
>>>> \setupformulas[align=flushleft]
>>>> \startformula
>>>> \startalign[n=2,align={left,middle}]
>>>> \NC \text{Text1} \NC\qquad E = mc^2 \NR
>>>> \NC \text{Text2} \NC\qquad E = mc^2 \NR
>>>> \NC \text{Text2} \NC\hskip 3cm E = mc^2 \NR
>>>> \stopalign
>>>> \stopformula
>>>>
>>>> \stoptext
>>>> %%% end example.tex
>>>>
>>>>> On 24 Aug 2016, at 10:02, Jan Willem Flamma <jwfregis...@icloud.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear list,
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to include text on the same line as a formula.
>>>>> The text needs to be left-aligned and the formula needs to be mid-aligned
>>>>> (as per normal).
>>>>>
>>>>> I’ve tried various solutions from the mathalign MyWay but have not
>>>>> succeeded to get the desired result sofar.
>>>>> Below a M-Not-WE. Clearly, the formula is not positioned correctly yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Who can help me out?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Jan Willem
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> \starttext
>>>>>
>>>>> \setupformulas[align=flushleft]
>>>>> \startformula
>>>>> \startalign[n=2,align={left,middle}]
>>>>> \NC \text{Text1} \NC E = mc^2 \NR
>>>>> \NC \text{Text2} \NC E = mc^2 \NR
>>>>> \stopalign
>>>>> \stopformula
>>>>>
>>>>> \stoptext
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