General ⇒ Equation indentation

[IceIV]

Hello all,

I'm looking to specify how far my equations are indented from the left margin (1 cm). Currently all equations are centred. Does anyone know of a way to change this behaviour?

Regards,
IceIV

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi IceIV,

welcome to the forum!
You could set the fleqn option to the document class and specify \mathindent, have a look at this small compilable example:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt,fleqn]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\setlength{\mathindent}{1cm}
\begin{document}
\noindent Text
\begin{equation*}
y = ax + b
\end{equation*}
\end{document}

Stefan

[IceIV]

Perfect! I'd actually tried \setlength{\mathindent}{1cm} previously but didn't have the fleqn option set.

Thanks Stefan_K.

[sigmaa]

I used this command "\setlength{\mathindent}{1cm}" for "{eqnarray}", but it didn't work.

Is there a separate command for this?

Thank you in advance...

[Johannes_B]

Would you be able to prepare a minimal working example to explicitely show the behaviour?

Btw: eqnarray is deprecated, use align or something similar instead. Read eqnarray vs. align for more information.

Best regards
Johannes

[yildizaykut]

Thanks Stefan Kottwitz, it worked