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by decitrig
Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:10 pm
Forum: Math & Science
Topic: line-by-line annotation for proofs?
Replies: 5
Views: 5365

line-by-line annotation for proofs?

Hi,

another option could be the alignat environment provided by amsmath :



That worked very well - stupid of me not to see that in the docs.

If the text represents math expressions, use the align environment from amsmath. However, be a bit more specific on what you want to do

I did the ...
by decitrig
Mon Apr 05, 2010 4:27 pm
Forum: BibTeX, biblatex and biber
Topic: Specify shorter author name for in-text citations?
Replies: 2
Views: 2868

Re: Specify shorter author name for in-text citations?

Sorry to be so long replying. I wound up writing a custom command for doing an MLA citation that manually specified the author/page number, and included a nocite for the referenced text.

Found a good MLA .sty file here:
http://web.reed.edu/cis/help/LaTeX/bibtexstyles.html
by decitrig
Mon Apr 05, 2010 4:05 pm
Forum: Math & Science
Topic: line-by-line annotation for proofs?
Replies: 5
Views: 5365

line-by-line annotation for proofs?

If the text represents math expressions, use the align environment from amsmath . However, be a bit more specific on what you want to do.

There's a reply that still awaits your reaction [1]. It is a matter of politeness to give feedback on provided solutions.

[1] View topic: Specify shorter ...
by decitrig
Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:05 pm
Forum: Math & Science
Topic: line-by-line annotation for proofs?
Replies: 5
Views: 5365

line-by-line annotation for proofs?

I'm looking for some way to annotate proofs line by line, as in the following:

statement = statement by theorem blah
= manipulated statement by this property
< something else by definition

etc (note, the equals and the "by"s should be aligned). Are tables the best way to do this, or is there an ...
by decitrig
Thu Nov 26, 2009 7:28 pm
Forum: BibTeX, biblatex and biber
Topic: Specify shorter author name for in-text citations?
Replies: 2
Views: 2868

Specify shorter author name for in-text citations?

I'm using the natbib package to generate MLA citations & bibliography, but I've hit a snag. I have the following citation:

Federal Writers’ Project of the WPA. The WPA Guide to New York City. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, c1982.

which is the "corporate author" style. I would like to cite this as ...