Re: [AUCTeX] $ in embedded environments (\framebox and \minipage) in math

[David Kastrup]

Harald von Aschen <address@hidden> writes:

> At 12:36 17.09.05 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>>Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > * Harald von Aschen (2005-09-16) writes:
>> >
>> >> Here are two more cases in which it is only possible to force to use the
>> >> dollar sign $ in an embedded math environment by C-q $:
>> >> This are:
>> >>    \framebox
>> >>    \minipage
>> >
>> > Thanks, I changed texmathp.el accordingly in CVS.
>>
>>I actually don't want to know just what a minipage or framebox should
>>be doing in math made...
>
> Please see for example Gilbarg/Trudinger "Elliptic Partial
> Differential Equations" or Cioranescu/Saint Jean Paulin
> "Homogenization of Reticulated Structures", pg. 13, both Springer,
> where assumptions are enumerated and then given an equation
> number.

A parbox should be sufficient for that.  A minipage is something that
can also have footnotes.

> Some people are even nesting equation numbers and there have been
> problems with this nested structures with AMS but they are fixed,
> see
> http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/amslatex/math/diffs-m.txt
> (and look there for minipage).
>
> Instead of a framebox I can certainly use a fbox but not under all
> circumstances. (Yes, boxed equations look horrible, sorry for that but
> I've used it for a presentation.)

Why don't you use \boxed?

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