Improve article math/9902004: \hdotsfor (amsmath)

[darijgr]

Scroll down to Theorem 21 in https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/math/9902004.

The source code of the big matrix is:

$$\begin{pmatrix} 1&0&0&0&\dots&0\\
X&X&X&X&\dots&X\\
X^2&2X^2&4X^2&\hphantom{3}8X^2&\dots&2^{m-1}X^2\\
X^3&3X^3&9X^3&27X^3&\dots&3^{m-1}X^3\\
\hdotsfor6\\
X^{n-1}&(n-1)X^{n-1}&(n-1)^2X^{n-1}&\hdotsfor2&
(n-1)^{m-1}X^{n-1}
\end{pmatrix},$$

The \hdotsfor6 part should put ...'s that span 6 columns of the matrix. And indeed, there are 6 "..."s in the HTML, but they don't span 6 columns because they are all placed in the first column.

(All these bug reports left aside, I'm delighted to see how much ar5iv gets right in its HTML conversion! I thought some of these things would be impossible short of rewriting the source code...)