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March 8, 2014
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How to fit long equations on a page

  • March 8, 2014
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How do you fit a long equation that overruns the right margin onto the page width using Mathcad Prime 3.0? I have not been able to find any way to format the equation region to stop and continue on the next line/space below. Earlier versions of Mathcad have a formatting feature for this. Thanks in advance.

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    Werner_E25-Diamond I
    25-Diamond I
    March 8, 2014

    You are probably speaking of equations you enter manually, not expressions which are results of evaluations, right?

    The sad truth is that there simply is no way to force linebreaks or something similar.

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    ValeryOchkov24-Ruby IV
    24-Ruby IV
    March 9, 2014

    We can move the right margin in Mathcad Prime:

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    Werner_E25-Diamond I
    25-Diamond I
    March 9, 2014

    This doesn't work when we input long expressions. And as Jim wrote about a formatting feature in earlier version he seems to be in need for an input solution.

    Furthermore moving the margin won't help if he wants his definition be seen complete in a printed report.

    Changing paper orientation to landscape and changing the fontsize to something smaller (but this affects the whole worksheet!) are workarounds which may be useful in some situations but are nevertheless not adequate. The same goes for breaking an assignment into parts like part1:=a+b+c part2:=e+f+g variable:=part1 + part2.

    It was already often claimed here - we need linebreaks for input and output of expresssions.

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    ValeryOchkov24-Ruby IV
    24-Ruby IV
    March 9, 2014

    Some times I do so - a furmula in the collapsed area, a picture for the view:

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