Splitting lines for long equations
If you need something you can simply throw the sympy-produced equations into, then you can try breqn
package. It handles all \left
s and \right
s automatically, but, as expected, it will not do wonders and the output will never be as good as a manually tuned one. It also has some clashes which you have to take care of.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{breqn}
\begin{document}
\begin{dmath*}
X''(x) = \left(- 2 C_{1} \sqrt{\lambda} \sin{\left (\sqrt{\lambda} x \right )} -
C_{1} \lambda \cos{\left (\sqrt{\lambda} x \right )} +
C_{1} \cos{\left (\sqrt{\lambda} x \right )} +
2 C_{2} \sqrt{\lambda} \cos{\left (\sqrt{\lambda} x \right )} -
C_{2} \lambda \sin{\left (\sqrt{\lambda} x \right )} +
C_{2} \sin{\left (\sqrt{\lambda} x \right )}\right) e^{x}
\end{dmath*}
\end{document}
Some comments:
The macros
\sin
and\cos
don't take arguments. Writing\sin{...}
doesn't generate an error, but it doesn't generate anything good either (and it does create code clutter).Get rid of all
\left
and\right
sizing instructions. They're not needed, and the outermost pair is going to create a syntax error once you introduce a line break.Load the
amsmath
package and use analign*
environment to typeset the equation over two lines.I'd give more prominence to the
e^{x}
term, by placing it first rather than dead-last.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{align*}
X''(x) &= e^{x} \bigl[ - 2 C_{1} \sqrt{\lambda} \sin (\sqrt{\lambda} x)
- C_{1} \lambda \cos (\sqrt{\lambda} x)
+ C_{1} \cos (\sqrt{\lambda} x) \\
&\qquad + 2 C_{2} \sqrt{\lambda} \cos(\sqrt{\lambda} x)
- C_{2} \lambda \sin(\sqrt{\lambda} x)
+ C_{2} \sin(\sqrt{\lambda} x)\bigr]
\end{align*}
\end{document}
Just remove all \left
and \right
commands. They are not only the cause for the error (you cannot have \left
in one row and the matching \right
in another), but they make for too big parentheses.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation*}
\begin{split}
X''(x) = (- 2 C_{1} \sqrt{\lambda} \sin{ (\sqrt{\lambda} x )} -
C_{1} \lambda \cos{ (\sqrt{\lambda} x )} \\
+ C_{1} \cos{ (\sqrt{\lambda} x )} + 2 C_{2} \sqrt{\lambda} \cos{ (\sqrt{\lambda} x )} - \\
C_{2} \lambda \sin{ (\sqrt{\lambda} x )} + C_{2} \sin{ (\sqrt{\lambda} x )}) e^{x}\
\end{split}
\end{equation*}
\end{document}
Now, let's improve this display.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation*}
\begin{split}
X''(x) &= e^x\bigl(
- 2C_{1}\sqrt{\lambda}\sin(\sqrt{\lambda}\,x) - C_{1}\lambda\cos(\sqrt{\lambda}\,x) \\
&\qquad + C_{1}\cos(\sqrt{\lambda}\,x) + 2C_{2}\sqrt{\lambda}\cos(\sqrt{\lambda}\,x) \\
&\qquad - C_{2}\lambda\sin(\sqrt{\lambda}\,x) + C_{2}\sin(\sqrt{\lambda}x)
\bigr)
\end{split}
\end{equation*}
\end{document}