Introduce an aligned environment

This is almost like the align* environment, but it starts out in math mode,
so we don't have to worry about the fact that we have no real surrounding
text mode in KaTeX.  This is the first step towards align* and align.

src/environments.js

@@ -176,3 +176,43 @@ defineEnvironment("cases", {
     }, context.mode);
     return res;
 });
+
+// An aligned environment is like the align* environment
+// except it operates within math mode.
+// Note that we assume \nomallineskiplimit to be zero,
+// so that \strut@ is the same as \strut.
+defineEnvironment("aligned", {
+}, function(context) {
+    var res = {
+        type: "array",
+        cols: []
+    };
+    res = parseArray(context.parser, res);
+    var emptyGroup = new ParseNode("ordgroup", [], context.mode);
+    var numCols = 0;
+    res.value.body.forEach(function(row) {
+        var i;
+        for (i = 1; i < row.length; i += 2) {
+            row[i].value.unshift(emptyGroup);
+        }
+        if (numCols < row.length) {
+            numCols = row.length;
+        }
+    });
+    for (var i = 0; i < numCols; ++i) {
+        var align = "r";
+        var pregap = 0;
+        if (i % 2 === 1) {
+            align = "l";
+        } else if (i > 0) {
+            pregap = 2; // one \qquad between columns
+        }
+        res.value.cols[i] = {
+            type: "align",
+            align: align,
+            pregap: pregap,
+            postgap: 0
+        };
+    }
+    return res;
+});

test/katex-spec.js

@@ -1672,6 +1672,15 @@ describe("A cases environment", function() {
 
 });
 
+describe("An aligned environment", function() {
+
+    it("should parse its input", function() {
+        expect("\\begin{aligned}a&=b&c&=d\\\\e&=f\\end{aligned}")
+            .toParse();
+    });
+
+});
+
 var getMathML = function(expr, settings) {
     var usedSettings = settings ? settings : defaultSettings;
 

test/screenshotter/ss_data.yaml

@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
 # on the next line. See http://www.yaml.org/ for syntax details.
 
 Accents: \vec{A}\vec{x}\vec x^2\vec{x}_2^2\vec{A}^2\vec{xA}^2
+Aligned: |
+    \begin{aligned}
+        a &= 1 & b &= 2 \\
+        3a &= 3 & 17b &= 34
+    \end{aligned}
 Arrays: |
     \left(\begin{array}{|rl|c||}
         1&2&3\\