I am writing an article in the Journal of the Optical Society of America B (JOSA B) and I have used the journal's LaTeX template.
Unfortunately, I have a problem with the output PDF. Instead of capital Greek letters I get a black square and I cannot figure out what the problem is. This problem is exclusively for capital Greek letters. Other letters and mathematical signs are shown properly. I only use the amsmath
package.
\documentclass[9pt,twocolumn,twoside]{osajnl} % http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josab/submit/templates/pc/osajnl_2015.zip (*.zip-file, 581 kB)
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{breqn}
\usepackage{subfigure}
\journal{josab} % Choose journal (ao, josaa, josab)
\setboolean{shortarticle}{false} % true = letter, false = research article
\begin{document}
\begin{subequations}
\begin{equation}
\left[\tilde{V}^{-^{(n)}}\right]=\left[\Gamma^{(n)}\right]\left[\tilde{V}^{+^{(n)}}\right],
\end{equation}
\begin{align}
\left[V_m^{(n)}(z) \right]=\left[ P^{(n)} \right]
\left( \left[ \exp \left( -j k ^{(n)} \left( z-z_n \right) \right) \right] \left[ \tilde{V}^{+^{(n)}} \right] + \\
\left[ \exp \left( +j k ^{(n)} \left( z-z_{n+1} \right) \right) \right] \left[ \tilde{V}^{-^{(n)}} \right] \right)
\end{align}
\end{subequations}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Remove the call of the
breqn
package.After the operation I get
Note that
subfigure
has been obsolete for several years. The official replacement issubfig
. Alternatively, usesubcaption
. Note that the class already loadscaption
, sosubcaption
should probably be chosen.I add a version without
\left
andright
, which don't seem necessary (they rarely are in cases like this) and where the superscripts (n) are similar to the one for Gamma. More importantly, the two consecutive equations are together in agather
environment: twoequation
environments should never appear immediately after one another.In order to accommodate the split formula where you use
\left
and\right
across lines, just remove all of them; for better clarity, some of the fences can be made\big
, but not more than that. Note thatmultline
is the environment of choice for this.