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When using any environments that use a & as the delimiter (align, tabular, array etc. ), it is not possible to delimit from within another function, eg.

\begin{align}
   \boxed{this & that} \\
   \boxed{& and this aswell}
\end{align}

Some commands, like \text allows you to break such that it isn't an issue, but if I wanted to have a \boxed{} environment stretching over these delimiters, the environment ceases to register them.

Is there a way to correctly delimit within a command (in a simple manner)? Or is it best to find a different way to display the data?

HFort
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    I was a wee bit confused by your denoting & as delimiter (which in TeX is something else) but I think you just want the macro \Aboxed from the mathtools package (an extension to amsmath). Though I don't understand what you mean by saying the \text allows you to do that (it shouldn't, at least not if you use it in the same way.) – campa Apr 22 '21 at 09:41
  • \boxed does not allow & separators inside its argument, so I'm not sure I understand the question. – Steven B. Segletes Apr 22 '21 at 09:44
  • See e.g. https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/13681/82917 – campa Apr 22 '21 at 09:44
  • With text{} you can write \text{this} & \text{that} and it looks no different to \text{this that}. That is not the case with \boxed.

    The \Aboxed{} method look like it will work though, thanks

     – HFort May 03 '21 at 15:22

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