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Re: TeX Problem w/long formula in display mode

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From: Joseph Caddell
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 18:15
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In article <4=+=tB+@engin.umich.edu> caren@engin.umich.edu (Caren Levine) writes:
>I'm having huge problems getting an extremely long equation
>to typeset correctly using TeXtures on the Mac.  Here's
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>Here's how I tried to do it with \eqalign:
>
>$$\eqalign{[C_{av}(t)]_{x=1} 
>&= {1 \over {1+N_M}} \left\{1+N_M-\exp(-N_M)  \cr
                      ^^^^
>&+ (2-{\fr {N_M} {N_M-K_f}})  {{N_M\exp(-N_M)}
>\over {N_M - K_f}}  \br{1-\exp[t(N_M-K_f)]}  \cr
>&- {{N^2_Mt\exp(-N_M)}
>\over {N_M - K_f}}  K_f\exp [t(N_M-K_f)]\right\} \cr
                                          ^^^^^^
>&\qquad{\rm at\ } 0 \le t \le 1  \cr} \eqno (40)$$
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Caren,
    I'm no expert, but \biggl and \biggr (or \Bigl or
whatever size works) will not give you the error messages 
if you replace \left and \right with them

>	Caren Levine
>	Univ. of Michigan
>	College of Engineering
>	(313) 764-4906
>	caren@engin.umich.edu
>
>P.S.  Sorry for the long post, I wanted those helping me to have
>as much information as possible to be able to help solve the
>problem.

Later,
Joe

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From: caddell@altair.csustan.edu (Joseph Caddell)
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Subject: Re: TeX Problem w/long formula in display mode
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