On 05/27/2018 08:09 PM, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote:
Turns out that's surprisingly easy to do (modified example attached). Start a display formula as usual, and with the cursor in the (empty) formula do ctrl-M (or, I suppose, cmd-M on a Mac) to go into text mode inside the formula. Alternatively, you can type "\text{"; LyX will insert the closing brace automatically and put you in a text inset. In the nested inset, type or paste the scalebox stuff. Exit out one level (back to math mode) and insert the label.On 05/25/2018 05:05 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:On 05/25/2018 07:02 PM, Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan wrote:I've a very large block-displayed formula in one of my articles. Its presence is simply to exhibit the true complexity of an ostensible axiom in the system of another researcher.The problem is that the formula is so large that it would be good to reduce the character sizes a bit, just to make it fit into a smaller space on the page. Few if any readers will want to make a careful examination of the formula.What (if such exists) is a straightforward way for me to reduce the character sizes in one and only one formula?(I'm perfectly happy with red boxes. ;-) )You can load the graphicx package and use the \scalebox command. Note that graphicx might already be loaded if you are incorporating graphics. If not, you can load it explicitly in the preamble. If you want the formula in display mode, you may have to use inline math and center the paragraph manually (as I did in the attached example). There might be a way to convince it to work with display math formulas, but I don't know how.PaulThanks for that much!I am going to want to find a way to make this work for display formulae, as the formula in question needs to be numbered. (That's actually why I want it to take a bit less space.)I can just dump the problem in the lap of whoever does the final marking-up for the journal, but I'd rather have a solution in place.
Paul
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