You may have noticed that previews of equations in display style
have a large amount of embedded space to the left of the
equation. This means that, when switching from preview mode to
edit mode, the user gets a nasty jump in his view of the
equation.
I've been chatting with David Kastrup about what might be done
about this and he suggests using the fleqn option. It works
perfectly on this little snippet file:
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\documentclass[fleqn]{article}
\mathindent 0em
\usepackage[active,delayed,dvipng,tightpage,showlabels,lyx]{preview}
\begin{document}
\begin{preview}
\[ E=\int_{A}\!\!\mathrm{d}A\:\rho^{2} \]
\end{preview}
\end{document}
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$ latex snippet
$ dvips -o snippet.ps snippet.dvi
$ gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER \
-sDEVICE=png16m -sOutputFile=snippet%d.png \
-dGraphicsAlphaBit=4 -dTextAlphaBits=4 snippet.ps
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My first question is about the mechanics of this solution. Can I
use the fleqn option with any document class?
My second question is should I make this change? Do people have
strong opinions either way?
Angus
