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math environments

2025

Displaying within the margins
·409 words·2 mins
MSP Staff
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What to do when the width of an equation exceeds the width of a page.

2024

Decluttering, efficiently
·349 words·2 mins
MSP Staff
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Small changes to cluttered, difficult-to-parse math displays leave them tidy and easy to digest.
Created by potrace 1.16, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2019 (then hand-edited)
Stay away from {eqnarray}
·352 words·2 mins
MSP Staff
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Here are three examples of, and solutions for, bad behavior of the {eqnarray} environment: overwritten equation numbers, incorrect equation references, and bad or inconsistent spacing.