How to let \eqnarray wrap to next page?

[Charlie Zender]

Ola,

I have some seriously boring mathematical derivations that take up
more than half a page in the eqnarray environment in latex.
The problem is that latex seems to want to keep the whole environment
on the same page, which means the page breaks are leaving lots of
white space. I'd like eqnarray to just flow onto the next page like
a text paragraph. Is there a way to do this without manually
breaking the \eqnarray into multiple \eqnarrays?

Thanks,
Charlie
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Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100

[David Naughton]

Charlie Zender wrote:

> Ola,
>
> I have some seriously boring mathematical derivations that take up
> more than half a page in the eqnarray environment in latex.
> The problem is that latex seems to want to keep the whole environment
> on the same page, which means the page breaks are leaving lots of
> white space. I'd like eqnarray to just flow onto the next page like
> a text paragraph. Is there a way to do this without manually
> breaking the \eqnarray into multiple \eqnarrays?
>
> Thanks,
> Charlie

Try including \allowdisplaybreaks in your preamble. You might also need to
use the amsmath package.

Hopefully this helps.

Ciao

Dave

[Charlie Zender]

David Naughton wrote:

Thanks, this worked fine. I keep forgetting how many useful
features amsmath has that I havn't explored.

[Michael J Downes]

Charlie Zender <zen...@removethisspamblock.uci.edu> writes:

> I have some seriously boring mathematical derivations that take up
> more than half a page in the eqnarray environment in latex.
> The problem is that latex seems to want to keep the whole environment
> on the same page, which means the page breaks are leaving lots of
> white space. I'd like eqnarray to just flow onto the next page like
> a text paragraph. Is there a way to do this without manually
> breaking the \eqnarray into multiple \eqnarrays?

(a) Stop using the amsmath package :-) If you were using plain old
vanilla LaTeX the eqnarray's would break between any two lines. amsmath
turns that off because it is considered a better strategy for most
heavily mathematical material to turn off breaks inside a displayed
equation and mark exception points where the author wants them to be
allowed, than to allow them everywhere and require the author to mark
all points where they don't want a break.

(b) Use the commands \allowdisplaybreaks or \displaybreak[1] provided by
the amsmath package, depending on which strategy you prefer.

Regards, Michael Downes
tech-s...@ams.org