I have the following question: I like to have a big curly brace behind the equations to show that they belong together and have only one equation number.
An example without the brace would be
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{align}
\begin{split}
x &= r\,\cos \varphi\\
y &= r\,\sin \varphi
\end{split}
\end{align}
\end{document}
I would like to have the curly bracket behind the two equations. I saw this already in textbooks but have not found latex code for that. I guess it is very simple, but at the moment I have no clue how to do it. I was already searching for a while.
Best Answer
You could use the following, modified version of the code you've provided:
By the way, both the
align
andsplit
environments, which you employ in your code, let users set alignment points (e.g., the equal sign) with the&
symbol. Using both environments simultaneously is redundant.Note that I've substituted
equation
foralign
, andaligned
forsplit
, in the code above because you mention that you want the equations to be associated with a single equation number. (Thealign
environment will create separate equation numbers for each equation it encounters unless you use the\notag
command, but this seems more complicated than using thealigned
environment inside anequation
environment.)