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From: ard@cs.bham.ac.uk (Antoni Diller <DillerAR>)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: \eqnarray or \eqalignno
Message-ID: <1000@christopher-robin.cs.bham.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Sep 90 10:14:55 GMT
Organization: Birmingham University, England
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I use LaTeX a lot but I think that Lamport's \eqnarray environment is a
complete disaster and I use the
TeX commands \eqalign and \eqalignno instead, getting
them back into LaTeX involves uncommenting some bits of lplain.
The problem with \eqnarray is that the spacing around the middle symbol is all
wrong and, furthermore, \eqnarray can't be nested inside anything else,
but \eqalign can.

Similarly, I think TeX's \cases command is preferable to LaTeX's messy
way of getting the same result (page 49 of Lamport's overpriced book).

Does anyone agree?