[Tugindia] Frameboxes

[E. Krishnan]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Kev wrote:

> I am trying to frame a displaymath equation but I
> cannot compile.
> 
> e.g $$a^m x a^n = a^{m+n}$$
> 
> How can I frame this using \fbox command ??

The "amsmath" package has a "\boxed" command to do this

    \usepackage{amsmath}
    ..................
    $$\boxed{a^m\times a^n = a^{m+n}}$$
  
By the way please note that to get the multiplication sign in TeX, we use 
the "\times" command.

-- 
Krishnan