General ⇒ Formulas too wide - changing margins

[Elijah2807]

Hi folks,

I am writing an article with a custom margin. However, now I have a formula (more precisely an eqnarray) which is too wide for my page layout.

So I wanted it to stick out left and right. I tried the \makebox used for figures and tables, but I can't get it to work.

Any suggestions?

Thx,

Elias

[Juanjo]

I am writing an article with a custom margin. However, now I have a formula (more precisely an eqnarray) which is too wide for my page layout.

So I wanted it to stick out left and right. I tried the \makebox used for figures and tables, but I can't get it to work.

Any suggestions?

Yes, of course: never use eqnarray. Read, for example, this entry in the blog of Stefan_K, one of the forum moderators, as well as the links you'll find there. So, coming to your problem, why not judiciously split the formula using an amsmath environment? In addition to align, there some others which may fit your needs. Provide a minimal working example to have more help.

[daleif]

(1) do not use eqnarray, explanation listed here http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-4/madsen

(2) use align or similar (from the amsmath package), and break or refrase the equation in a different way.

In my LaTeX book (which is in Danish) I have several examples as for to do this. http://www.imf.au.dk/system/latex/bog

[localghost]

Have a look at the amsmath package and its math environments to split your equations into several lines. More useful hints are given in the "Math mode" document.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[Elijah2807]

Hey,

thanks a lot for the quick response! In fact I was using amsmath and wasn't aware of the align feature.

That solved it!

Cheers,

ELias