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Obviously I made a mistake the other night, because parbox now works just as well as minipage. I'll also take on board the other comments width and italics too. Thanks to both of your for your help.

Thanks. I couldn't get parbox to do what I wanted (the text still went off the page), but the parbox documentation pointed me to minibox, which did the right thing. I also had to remove the "text" command, and add the "it" command to give it italics:


\begin{equation}\label{result}
\begin{minipage ...

Hi all. A beginner here, so possibly an easy question.

I wish to give a sentence an equation number. I've looked online an apparently I can use \text of \mbox like this:
\begin{equation}\label{result}
\text{Given a game B which is normally losing, it is possible to determine a winning strategy, if ...