I have some long text (a single sentence) which I want to put inside a math environment. But my text just goes accros the page margin and ignores the textwidth specification given in the preamble.
Here is a toy example:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\setlength{\textwidth}{500pt}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\textheight}{8in}
\usepackage{latexsym,amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath,array}
\usepackage[margin=1in,headsep=2.5cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\begin{math}
2+1=3\\
2+2=4\\
{\text{This is some very very very very very very very very very very very
very very very very very very very very long text in math environment.}}
\end{math}
\end{document}
Obviously I could just break the line manually but there should be some better way of Latex doing that automatically?
Best Answer
The
math
environment is for inline math, I would not use it for multiline math. Also, I would not force multiline text into a math environment. I would leave the math environment, print the text, start a math environment again. A math environment is not the best place for long text.Your example can be fixed using
\parbox
, such asThis way there would be line breaks with full justification.
But I would either end math mode or use a displayed math environment. You are already using amsmath. In this case I recommend to
use an
align
environment or alike,use
\intertext
to temporarily escape the math environment for long text,use
\text
just for short text within math.