Hi Ikumi, Thanks for sharing your tentative patch. The "always-align nil" behavior looks good to me. As for the "always-align t" case, there are still some natural "broken" examples, as you know: #+begin_src latex \begin{equation*} g = \begin{pmatrix} a & b \\ c & d \\ \end{pmatrix}, \quad h = \begin{pmatrix} x & y \\ z & w \\ \end{pmatrix}. \end{equation*} #+end_src #+begin_src latex The matrix $\begin{pmatrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{pmatrix}$ has determinant \begin{equation*} a d - b c. \end{equation*} The matrix $\begin{pmatrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{pmatrix}$ has determinant \begin{equation*} a d - b c. \end{equation*} The matrix $\begin{pmatrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{pmatrix}$ has determinant \begin{equation*} a d - b c. \end{equation*} #+end_src With a bit more massaging, it should be possible to avoid these. I had in mind modifying LaTeX-indent-level-count (or the block surrounding where it is called) in \end{TABULAR} cases, adjusting by the difference between the matching \begin and its beginning of line. Paul