Math & Science ⇒ Left-Justified "align"

[JonTsu]

Hi LaTeXers,

It seems that the default on \begin{align*} ... \end{align*} is to centre it, is there any way of having a left-justified set of aligned equations? e.g.

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\begin{align*}
x&= abcd\\
&=abcd+efgh
\end{align*}

would be centred, but I would like it to appear as

x = abcd
II = abcd+efgh

i.e. with the x completely left-justified.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jonathan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Jonathan,

you could use a flalign* environment and push all to the left by adding another &:

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\begin{flalign*}
  x &= abcd & \\
    &= abcd + efgh
\end{flalign*}

But you can keep using align* and do the alignment globally, for all displayed math: use the fleqn option, and if you like set also the math indentation to 0pt after loading amsmath, such as

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\documentclass[fleqn]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\setlength{\mathindent}{0pt}

Stefan

[JonTsu]

Hi Stefan,
Thanks so much, that works perfectly!
Jonathan