Math & Science ⇒ Math On One Line

[mdk31]

I'm working in a two column environment and I'm trying to get my math to show up on one line.

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{equation*}

\frac{0.98 \text{ $R_{Jupiter}$}}{1} \times \frac{11.209 \text{ $R_{Earth}$}}{1 \text{ $R_{Jupiter}$}} \times \frac{1 \text{ $R_{Sun}$}}{109.125 \text{ $R_{Earth}$}} 

\end{equation*}

When I have this long equation, it does into the other column. Is there a way to shrink it down? I'm not sure I want to put it on two separate lines.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

one way could be to use \scalebox or \resizebox of the graphicx package, for example:

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\resizebox{.3\textwidth}{!}{\parbox{\textwidth}{
\begin{equation*}
...
\end{equation*}}}

Btw. why do you use \text this way? Do you want to get something like this?

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\frac{0.98 R_\text{Jupiter}}{1}

Stefan

[localghost]

Take a look at the marvosym package. Amongst others it provides astronomical symbols for the planets.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english,twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[includeheadfoot,margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{marvosym}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \blindtext[3]
  \begin{equation}
    \frac{0.98\,R_\text{Jupiter}}{1} \times \frac{11.209\,R_\text{Earth}}{1\,R_\text{Jupiter}} \times \frac{1\,R_\text{Sun}}{109.125\,R_\text{Earth}}
  \end{equation}

  \begin{equation}
    \frac{0.98\,R_\text{\Jupiter}}{1} \times \frac{11.209\,R_\text{\Earth}}{1\,R_\text{\Jupiter}} \times \frac{1\,R_\text{\Sun}}{109.125\,R_\text{\Earth}}
  \end{equation}
  \blindtext[4]
\end{document}

This way you can shorten the equation to fit one column.


Best regards
Thorsten¹