# \shoveleft

Used at the start of a line in an AMS multline display to force that line to be left-aligned instead of the default multline placement.

https://texform.dev/latex/commands/shoveleft

## Metadata

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Topic | [Layout and breaks](https://texform.dev/latex/topics/layout) |
| Packages | ams |
| Allowed mode | math |
| Tags | spacing |
| Commonality | low |
| Kind | declarative |

## Syntax

### ams

Argument specification: ``

Used at the start of a line in an AMS multline display to force that line to be left-aligned instead of the default multline placement.

## Examples

```latex
\begin{multline}\shoveleft a\end{multline}
```

[Open in Playground](https://play.texform.dev/?input=%5Cbegin%7Bmultline%7D%5Cshoveleft+a%5Cend%7Bmultline%7D)

## Renderer support

| Package | MathJax | KaTeX | XeTeX |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ams | full | none | none |

## Usage frequency

<0.01% of formulas in the measured corpus contain this entry, rank 212 of 263 entries with frequency data.

## In TeXForm

TeXForm parses this entry as declarative syntax; the package determines its argument specification.

## See also

- [\\shoveright](https://texform.dev/latex/commands/shoveright)

## Test cases

### ams

| Input | Case | MathJax | KaTeX | XeTeX |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| \begin{multline} a \\ \shoveleft{b} \\ c \end{multline} | Positive: ctx:in-multline | Pass | Fail | Fail |