Math & Science ⇒ \hfill doesn't work in align environment

[jonty01]

Hello and thanks for reading this!
\hfill doesn't seem to work in the align environment. Can something else do the job? (I'd like to stick to the align environment if possible).
For example,

\begin{align*}
&longequation1\\
&=longequation2\\
&=longerequat-\\
&\hfill -ion3
\end{align*}

If I do this, the last line is not flushed right. \hfill is just ignored. The only thing I could think of is a bunch of \indent\indent\indent...\indent

I would appreciate your help!

John

[phi]

For this case, the multline environment seems to be better suited. It automatically aligns the first line to the left and the last one to the right.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi John,

welcome to the board!
You could use the flalign environment. Use an additional & seperator to push a formula to the right. flalign is described in the amsmath user's guide and in some other math tutorials and docs, you can find some of them listed here: Mathematics with LaTeX.

Stefan

[jonty01]

thank you