Text Formatting ⇒ aligning text seperatly within aligned maths

[stephenteacher]

I want to show the working out of an equation with explanatory text interspersed. Is there any way of left aligning the comments while in the align* or other environment? What I have so far:

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{gensymb}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{align*}
a long equation&=a long equation \\
more equation&=more equation \\
\text{things I want to say to make life easier to understand equation} \\
a long equation&=a long equation \\
more equation&=more equation \\
\text{other stuff I want to say} \\
more equation&=more equation \\
\end{align*}

[stephenteacher]

Never mind.

Solved with

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\noalign{\text{My text here:}} \\

Unless there is a better way..?

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome,

i suggest an alternative solution using shortintertext from package mathtools, providing some extensions and fixes for package amsmath.

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\begin{document}
\begin{align*}
	a long equation&=a long equation \\
	more equation&=more equation \\
	\shortintertext{things I want to say to make life easier to understand equation}
	a long equation&=a long equation \\
	more equation&=more equation \\
	\shortintertext{other stuff I want to say}
	more equation&=more equation \\
\end{align*}
\end{document}

[stephenteacher]

Less \'s and {}. I like. Thank you.