Text Formatting ⇒ Aligning with several fixed points

[theo96]

Hello,

I am new to this forum, so I apologize in advance for maybe not asking in the right way.

I would like to have more than one fixpoint in a line, I can align future lines to. I am using the aligned environment plugged into the equation environment, this should not change. Maybe this question gets clearer in my MWE:

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\documentclass {article}
\usepackage[left=1 cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath}


\begin{document}


\begin{equation*}\begin{aligned}
\text{This line uses has two different points }&= \text{ but also }+ \text{are good points to start further lines}\\
&=\text{ this line starts with }=\\
&\hspace{1.9 cm} + \text{this line should start at }+ \text{ without using hspace}
\end{aligned}\end{equation*}

\end{document}

Thank you for your support

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Theo,

welcome to the forum!

You could use the alignedat environment that supports several alignment places:

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\documentclass {article}
\usepackage[left=1 cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{mathtools}

\begin{document}

\begin{equation*}\begin{alignedat}{2}
\text{This line uses has two different points }&= \text{ but also }&&+ \text{are good points to start further lines}\\
&=\mathrlap{\text{ this line starts with }=}\\
&&&+ \text{this line should start at }+ \text{ without using hspace}
\end{alignedat}\end{equation*}

\end{document}

I used \mathrlap of the mathtools package so the second line would not force the column to be too wide. mathtools loads amsmath implicitly.

Btw. if it's for text, you could use the tabbing environment.

Stefan

[theo96]

Hi Stefan,

thanks for this solution. It works exactly in the way I wanted.