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Hey guys,

I've been trying to figure out how to insert MetaPost code in a LaTeX document to creat some simple graphics.

The emp documentation states:
emp: The emp environment contains the description of a single figure that will be
placed at the location of the environment. Required arguments are ...

Ah! I figured out my problem.

I found a small blurb hidden inside an article that states:


Note that double column figures and tables have some limitations. They can't be placed at the bottom of pages. Additionally, they will not appear on the same page where they are defined. So you have to ...

Hi,

Thanks for all your help guys - I've been staring at the LaTeX documentation for two days soaking up as much as I can.

I'm having difficulty trying to find an explanation on getting text to flow around a table. I found a sample online of what I would like it to look like (t'was done in LaTeX ...

I've been going through the documentation for AMS and they mention that:


The counters used by the subequations environment
are parentequation and equation and \addtocounter, \setcounter,
\value, etc., can be applied as usual to those counter names.


How do you increase the parentequation ...

Ah! I got it, I think.

Thanks for your help!


To solve the problem in your first post, do not use the eqnarray environment any more. The reasons for that can be found in l2tabu-english . Include the package amsmath from the AMS LaTeX Bundle and use the align environment.
\begin{align}
(a+b)^2 ...

Also, while we're at it, another thing I've been flipping through the help documentation trying to find is being able to have LaTeX follow a custom equation numbering system. Sometimes it's neccessary to have something like the following:


Equation 1
Equation 2
Equation 2a
Equation 3
Equation 4 ...

Hi,

I'm just starting to get familiar with LaTeX.

I have a block of text that contains both equations and lines of text. I'd like to have the equations displayed using eqnarray so that the equal signs are aligned and I'd like for them to be numbered. But! I'd also like to have text in between the ...