Alignment between material inside and outside a cases environment
Werner beat me by 56 seconds but an alternative scheme is
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\begin{document}
\begin{align*}
d_i(g_n,\ldots,g_0) &=
\begin{cases}
(d_0g_ng_{n-1},g_{n-2},\ldots,g_0),& \text{if $i=0$;}\\
(d_ig_n,\ldots,d_1g_{n-i+1},d_0g_{n-i}g_{n-i-1},g_{n-i-2},\ldots,g_0), \\
& \phantom{\text{if $i=0$;}}\llap{\text{if $i=1,\ldots,n-1$;}} \\
(d_ng_n,\ldots,d_1g_1),& \text{if $i=0$,}
\end{cases}
\intertext{and}
s_i(g_n,\ldots,g_0) &= (s_ig_n,\ldots,s_0g_{n-i},id_{G_{n-i}},g_{n-i-1},\ldots,g_0),&\llap{$i=0,\ldots,n$.\kern\minalignsep}
\end{align*}
\noindent X\dotfill X
\end{document}
The following provides what you're after:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathtools}% http://ctan.org/pkg/mathtools
\begin{document}
\newsavebox{\mathbox}
\savebox{\mathbox}{$\left\{\begin{array}{@{}ll@{}}
(d_ig_n,\ldots,d_1g_{n-i+1},d_0g_{n-i}g_{n-i-1},g_{n-i-2},\ldots,g_0), & \text{if $i=0$;} \\
(d_ig_n,\ldots,d_1g_{n-i+1},d_0g_{n-i}g_{n-i-1},g_{n-i-2},\ldots,g_0), & \text{if $i=0$;} \\
(d_ig_n,\ldots,d_1g_{n-i+1},d_0g_{n-i}g_{n-i-1},g_{n-i-2},\ldots,g_0), & \text{if $i=0$;}
\end{array}\right.\kern-\nulldelimiterspace$}
\begin{align*}
d_i(g_n,\ldots,g_0) &=
\begin{cases}
(d_0g_ng_{n-1},g_{n-2},\ldots,g_0),& \text{if $i=0$;}\\
(d_ig_n,\ldots,d_1g_{n-i+1},d_0g_{n-i}g_{n-i-1},g_{n-i-2},\ldots,g_0), \\
& \phantom{\text{if $i=0$;}}\llap{\text{if $i=1,\ldots,n-1$;}} \\
(d_ng_n,\ldots,d_1g_1),& \text{if $i=0$,}
\end{cases}
\intertext{and}
s_i(g_n,\ldots,g_0) &= \makebox[\wd\mathbox][l]{$
(s_ig_n,\ldots,s_0g_{n-i},id_{G_{n-i}},g_{n-i-1},\ldots,g_0),\hfill i=0,\ldots,n.
$}
\end{align*}
\end{document}
The solution stores a bunch of math content inside a box called \mathbox
. This box contains an array
with column specification @{}ll@{}
- similar to that of cases
. Additionally it includes a left extensible brace \left\{
(the null right delimiter \right.
is removed using \kern-\nulldelimiterspace
). The content in the array
is constructed from the longest entry within the actual cases
environment. I've used 3 of the same lines, although a single line with a zero-width vertical rule of sufficient length would also suffice. The intent is to provide an extensible left brace that is just as wide (horizontally) as the original cases
, since only the width of \mathbox
will be used.
Once the box is established, a regular \makebox[\wd\mathbox][l]{$...$}
is used to set the content for the remaining math content.