[Solved] Newline and brackets

[McLP]

I want to make a formula like

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alignl ( (a and b or c) and newline alignl a or (c and d) )

, but it creates weird output.

the output created by the example code

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I have a very long fomula that without using newline would not fit on the page. But the newline seems to confuse the brackets and operands. I tried with none and other tips from the forum, but they did not work with logical operands.

I need fast help, thank you!

[Zizi64]

Try this:

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alignl { (a and b or c) and {} } newline  alignl { {} a or (c and d) }

{} : invisible empty operand

{ .... } : invisible grouping sign

[keme]

You can't have grouping across newline. This is an annoying limitation of the Math component.

A workaround is to insert invisible group close at the end of the line, then invisibly start a new parenthesis group on the new line.
To use different tokens for group initiate and terminate, you need to use the "left" and "right" keywords.

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alignl left ( (a and b or c) and {} right none newline left none alignl a or (c and d) right )

[McLP]

Thank you all for your help, I now switched to using LaTeX. But I can say that keme's workaround would work in OO too.
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