title: Latex Long Equations Alignment in single column
body: <p>I need multiple equations aligned in single column of a two columned document. I have tried a mixture of both align and multiline but it does not work.</p>
  
  <pre><code>\documentclass[12pt,journal,compsoc]{IEEEtran}
  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
  \usepackage{amsmath}
  
  \begin{document}
  \maketitle
  \section{Introduction}
  
  \begin{align*}
  p(W_{i},T_{n})&amp;=\begin{multline*}
  p(W_{i},T_{n})\\+(p(W_{i},T_{n})*k/100)
  \end{multline*}\\
  p(W_{i},T_{n})&amp;=\begin{multline*}
  p(W_{i},T_{n})\\+(p(W_{i},T_{n})*k/100)
  \end{multline*}\\
  \end{align*}
  
  \end{document}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It gives me the error</p>
  
  <pre><code>Package amsmath Error :\begin{multline*} allowed only in paragraph mode
  </code></pre>