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Hi,

Yes, that is exactly what I was looking for actually - thanks! For some reason, I thought that the cases environment, by default, automatically puts an equals to the left of the brace. Obviously that is not the case though!

Thank you again,

Ed.

Hello,

I want to write an equation with two cases, to represent something like "x = 1 if y > 0, otherwise x = -1". I know that this can be done using the cases environment:


\begin{cases}
1, & \text{if } y > 0 \\
0, & \text{otherwise}
\end{cases}


This works fine. However, what I actually want ...