Thanks, after pasting in the text and then examining it I was able to
figure out the correct approach. It appears my earlier alignment
difficulty stemmed from placing the equals sign in its own column. Now
I create a four-column structure in the align environment, with
equation= in the first column, equation in the second column, nothing
in the third column, and the annotation in the last column. This gets
me exactly what I had in pure LaTeX, which makes sense.
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 10/03/2011 11:23 AM, Abiel Reinhart wrote:
>>
>> I'm able to type plain text as you've suggested but I'm still unable
>> to get the alignment and spacing right. I can type text to the right
>> of an equation on a given line, spacing it out from the equation using
>> something like \quad. However, then the annotations from different
>> lines of the equation won't necessarily align. Alternately I can add a
>> column to the aligned environment. That takes care of horizontal
>> alignment but unfortunately then I run into problems with spacing, as
>> there is little spacing between the annotation and the math part of
>> the equation. This can sometimes be solved by adding a blank column to
>> the aligned environment, but in other cases the blank column doesn't
>> seem to do much and may in fact affect the alignment in other columns.
>
> All of these things can happen, to be sure. But won't they happen with the
> plain LaTeX you mentioned
>
>> \begin{align*}
>> h(x)&= \int_a^b{[f(x)+g(x)]dx}&& \text{(Some annotation)}\\
>> &= \int_a^b{y(x)dx}&& \text{(Another annotation)}
>> \end{align*}
>>
>
> just as well?
>
> Try this: Copy that very text and paste it into LyX (as plain text). Now
> highlight
> that same text and hit Ctrl-M. Look at View>Source to see what LyX will now
> generate.
>
> Richard
>
>
