I use a Swedish usepackage and when I write, for instance, å
in formulas I get an error message please use \mathaccent …
.
Here's what I try to write:
\begin{align}
\begin{split}
{R} = \{alla\:tal\:på\:tallinjen\}
\end{split}
\end{align}
At \end{align}
I get the error message:
Please use \mathaccents for accents in math mode. \add@accent … spacefactor \spacefactor}\accent #1 #2\egroup \spacefactor …
1.54 \end{align}
I'm changing \accent to \mathaccent here: wish me luck.
(Accents are not the same in formulas as in text.)
I have tried with \aa
but that doesn't work. Where is my failure?
Best Answer
"Accents" in math mode can have a precise mathematical meaning. For instance
$\dot{a}$
isn't related to the use of the letterȧ
in words, but usually means a derivative with respect to time. Similarly,$\ddot{a}$
is the second derivative and has nothing to do withä
.Thus TeX disallows text accent commands in math mode: one should know what he/she is writing.
Your case is different: you want text inside a math formula; then use
\text
, which is provided byamsmath
(you already load it).By the way, that formula is unnecessarily complicated:
not only is simpler, but provides for better vertical spacing.