\begin{equation} x + iy \end{equation}
x + iy | (1) |
\[, \]
can be used as abbreviations
for \begin{displaymath}
and \end{displaymath}
. \begin{displaymath} x + iy \end{displaymath}
\displaystyle
' is the font type used
to print maths in these display environments. Other relevant
environments are:-
\(
and \)
can be used to
delimit the environment, as can the TEX constructions
$
and $
. For example, $x=y^2$
gives
x=y2.
eqnarray*
variant to suppress numbering
altogether. \begin{eqnarray} a1 & = & b1 + c1\nonumber\\ a2 & = & b2 - c2 \end{eqnarray}
a1 | = | b1 + c1 | |
a2 | = | b2 - c2 | (2) |
Maths in these 2 sorts of environments have different default sizes for some
characters and other behavioural differences so that a line of maths won't
impinge on text lines below or above. If you want to put some non-maths text in
amongst maths then enclose it in an \mbox{...}
.