[OS X TeX] Item align

[Michael Sharpe]

On Jun 21, 2011, at 3:34 PM, David Arnold wrote:

> Michael,
> 
> Not bad, but in this case the baseline of the first equations winds up atop the baseline of the item number.
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{amsmath}
> \begin{document}
> 
> \begin{enumerate}
> 
> \item
> \begin{minipage}{2in}\begin{align*}
> 2x+3y&=4\\
> y&=\frac23x-4
> \end{align*}
> \end{minipage}
> \end{enumerate}
> \end{document}
> 
> D.
> 
> On Jun 21, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Michael Sharpe wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jun 21, 2011, at 3:12 PM, David Arnold wrote:
>> 
>>> \documentclass{article}
>>> \usepackage{amsmath}
>>> \begin{document}
>>> 
>>> \begin{enumerate}
>>> 
>>> \item
>>> \begin{align*}
>>> 2x+3y&=4\\
>>> 3x-4y&=12 
>>> \end{align*}
>>> 
>>> \end{enumerate}
>>> \end{document}
>> 
>> You can put the align material inside a minipage, Eg,
>> 
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \usepackage{amsmath}
>> \begin{document}
>> 
>> \begin{enumerate}
>> 
>> \item
>> \begin{minipage}{2in}\begin{align*}
>> 2x+3y&=4\\
>> 3x-4y&=12 
>> \end{align*}
>> \end{minipage}
>> \end{enumerate}
>> \end{document}
>> 

I missed that---some manual vertical adjustment seems necessary. You can use \raisebox on the minipage:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}

\item
\raisebox{-.8pt}{\begin{minipage}{2in}\begin{align*}
2x+3y&=4\\
3x-4y&=12 
\end{align*}
\end{minipage}}
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}