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fedja comments on ""align"" (15427)

fedja — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:59:43 -0700

\cr is an alternative for double backslash that seems to work fine in the align and similar environments.

Michael Hardy comments on ""align"" (15371)

Michael Hardy — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:11:02 -0700

OK, I'll try that......

Anton Geraschenko comments on ""align"" (15347)

Anton Geraschenko — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:03:50 -0700

Try double dollar signs:


$$\begin{align}
2 + 3 & = 5 \\
2 \times 3 & = 6
\end{align}$$

Michael Hardy comments on ""align"" (15339)

Michael Hardy — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:28:42 -0700

Thank you.

This seems to work.

(But the display is not centered or indented the way it would normally be, so it's still not as good as on stackexchange.)

Anton Geraschenko comments on ""align"" (15323)

Anton Geraschenko — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:40:29 -0700

They've modified the server side markdown engine to not mess with stuff in math. We can't do this, so the double backslash gets converted to a single backslash. You could either use a quadruple backslash, or try to keep markdown from messing things up. Since we may migrate to SE 2.0, the most reliable thing to do is to enclose the align in P tags, like this:


$\begin{align}
2 + 3 & = 5 \\
2 \times 3 & = 6
\end{align}$

Michael Hardy comments on ""align"" (15319)

Michael Hardy — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:02:12 -0700

"align" works on stackexchange but not on mathoverflow.

I have in minde code like the following:

\begin{align}
2 + 3 & = 5 \\
2 \times 3 & = 6
\end{align}

If stackexchange can do it, it should be possible to get the same feature here.