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Document with many equations (German to American English)
Thread poster: Gary Hess
Gary Hess
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German to English
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Mar 3, 2012

I have a document with many equations (it's a German textbook about physics). There are many instances where the German sentence begins, then an equation comes, then the sentence concludes (or this even happens multiple times in a single sentence).

Example:
Damit XYZ als ABC angesprochen werden kann, muß die Nebenbedingung

[EQUATION]

erfüllt sein.

I have always thought this was terrible style in English and have worked... See more
I have a document with many equations (it's a German textbook about physics). There are many instances where the German sentence begins, then an equation comes, then the sentence concludes (or this even happens multiple times in a single sentence).

Example:
Damit XYZ als ABC angesprochen werden kann, muß die Nebenbedingung

[EQUATION]

erfüllt sein.

I have always thought this was terrible style in English and have worked to transform these constructions, e.g.:

The following auxiliary condition must be fulfilled in order to treat XYZ as ABC:

[EQUATION]

But this particular document is so full of these complex sentences that I don't know what to do.

Any thoughts? Is it OK to construct sentences with formulas like this in American English? ▲ Collapse
 
Phil Hand
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China
Local time: 21:16
Chinese to English
It's perfectly normal, I think! Mar 3, 2012

The most obvious example of where an equation would not be the end of a sentence is when the equation is followed by "where".

Thus we can derive
E=mc2 (1)
where
E is energy;
m is mass; and
c is the speed of light.

That's a completely standard format - the where is always written with a small "w" (as I recall!).
 


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