Aligned systems
A single line is not enough. I need several equations stacked, sometimes aligned on the equals, sometimes just centred as a block.
Without an alignment mark, Typst stacks and I get a gathered block:
With an alignment mark, the equals signs line up. That is the default for a derivation I want a reader to scan vertically.
Two alignment marks, so a continuation can sit under the right-hand side instead of under the left.
Inequalities use the same columns. I want the relations stacked, not the variables.
A first-order system is the same pattern with primes. I will use this for linearisation later.
Three unknowns, still one alignment column:
Initial conditions belong on the same stack:
Lorenz, because three nonlinear lines is where a converter usually gives up.
A pendulum is one line of Newton and one line of the small-angle lie I will not tell yet.
Van der Pol, so a first-derivative term sits next to a cubic:
A longer derivation, still one alignment column:
The product rule stretched out, because I need to see every term survive a line break.
Integrating factor for a first-order linear equation, written the way I actually compute it:
Three-way alignment is just more rows. The middle line is a definition I keep rewriting until it sticks.
Maxwell in SI, as a block I will need when vector calculus shows up. If the nabla and the dots fall over, the rest of the book is fiction.
A trig identity I refuse to compress onto one line: