rgheck <rgh...@...> writes: > > On 09/23/2009 10:19 AM, David Wang wrote: > > I found exported latex source (by File->Export->LaTex(plain)) is not > > terribly clean. Specifically, \begin{equation} and \end{equation} in general > > don't start at the first column and occupy one line each [...] > > > > > This is probably a bug. The exported code is meant to be "clean", in > this sense, and we do our best e.g. to break the lines at 80 characters, > etc, etc. So you should report this on the bug tracker. It's probably an > easy fix. I'm not sure, though, because there is a need here to make > sure we don't out output too many newlines. I.e., this is OK: > blah blah blah > \begin{equation} > ... > but we do not want: > blah blah blah > > \begin{equation} > ...
The way this is handled for e.g. \begin{figure} or \begin{table} is to insert a comment mark (%) and a newline before the \begin{environment}. Applying this to your example would produce: blah blah blah% \begin{equation} ... or: blah blah blah % \begin{equation} ... which I think looks very acceptable. The extra newlines would be ignored during latex processing because of the comment mark. I do not know the details of the code producing this latex output but this solution should be easy to implement. Julien