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LaTeX wizards: help me with labels on sums

Polverone - 29-9-2005 at 18:43

I'm fairly new to LaTeX though I have used it indirectly, through LyX, for some time. I would like to reproduce the typesetting seen in this picture:

However, I can only figure out how to put a label/index to the right of the sum, not directly beneath it as in the picture. Is there any way to do this in LaTeX?

epck - 3-10-2005 at 12:13

Simple enough, the following should give the right form,

\begin{equation}
\sum_{bonds}
\end{equation}

$\underset{bonds}{\sum}$ should work as well.

Polverone - 3-10-2005 at 20:13

Thanks epck, it turns out that what I actually wanted was displaystyle. I have a paper reference sitting nearby now so hopefully I won't encounter any other elementary puzzles.