I am a new Latex user,I have loaded these two math equation in my Latex documents and i want to split an equation i have into multiple line
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsthm}
I am reading this topic for breaking the lines over multiple
although what ever i do it does not allow me to compile
MWE
\documentclass[authoryear,preprint,review,12pt]{elsarticle}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation}\label{xx}
\begin{split}
A&= 1 + 2 + \\
& 3 +4 +6
\end{split}
\end{equation}
\end{document}
\endinput
So
\begin{equation}
A = 1 + 2 + 3 +4 +6
\end{equation}
I want to place them/break the equation in two lines and retain the format of numbering and equal placing beneath.
i tried
\begin{equation}
A = 1 + 2 + \\
3 +4 +6
\end{equation}
Although it does not work
When i use \begin{multline}
\begin{multline}
A = 1 + 2 + \\
3 +4 +6
\end{multline}
and the following errors
! LaTeX Error: Environment multline undefined.See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.Type H <return> for immediate help.... \begin{multline}
! LaTeX Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{multline}.See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.Type H for immediate help…. \end{multline}
Though i get the equation broken it is not numbered, or has a one line distance from my text as the \begin{equation}
Also tried this example as kindly suggested
\begin{equation}\label{xx}
\begin{split}
A&= 1 + 2 + \\
& 3 +4 +6
\end{split}
\end{equation}
and obtaining these
! LaTeX Error: Environment split undefined.See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.Type H <return> for immediate help.... \begin{split}
! Misplaced alignment tab character &. A&
! Misplaced alignment tab character &.<recently read> & &
! LaTeX Error: \begin{equation} on input line 142 ended by \end{split}.See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.Type H <return> for immediate help.... \end{split}
Have i missed anything?
Best Answer
I suggest you use a
split
environment, which in contrast tomultline
may be used a subenvironment ofequation
. You need to specify an alignment point on each line with&
and separate lines with\\
. In this case the first line should be move left relative to the others and the packagemathtools
provides a convenient command for this:I have split across three lines for clarity. If you wanted to just split in two parts, then
multlined
(notice the extrad
) from themathtools
package would be a simpler solution:All the above works with
elsarticle
class in your updated question. E.g. the first version becomes: