On 25/05/2011 8:05 PM, Patrick Li wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have found myself resorting to \phantom for some things, and am having
trouble getting it to calculate correctly for the = sign. Would anyone
please confirm this behaviour?
The following is a piece of Tex code that I copy and pasted from my Lyx
file.
\begin{align*}
\vec{w}& =a+b\\
& \phantom{=}a+b\end{align*}
It should display
w = a+b
a+b
where the second "a+b" should line up perfectly with the first "a+b". This
is not the case.
Thank you
-Patrick
TeX adds some space around = because it is one of the relational
operators, but inside the \phantom{} it is not a relational operator
since it does not have any operands on the left or rigth within the {}.
Why don't you put the = to the left of the alignment?
> \begin{align*}
>
> \vec{w} = & a+b\\
>
> & a+b\end{align*}
--
Julien
