Use matrices in TikZposter environment?

Question

I am trying to create a poster using TikZposter. I would like to have some math involving matrices in my poster. When I do:

\documentclass{tikzposter}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usetheme{Default}
\begin{document}
\block{My Block}{
 Some text\\
 \begin{align*}
   M+A=T+H
 \end{align*}
}
\end{document}

everything works fine, but as soon as I try to include a matrix:

\documentclass{tikzposter}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usetheme{Default}
\begin{document}
\block{My Block}{
 Some text\\
 \begin{align*}
   \begin{matrix}
   M & A \\
   T & H
   \end{matrix}
 \end{align*}
}
\end{document}

MikTex complains with over a hundred error messages and does not generate an output. Am I doing something wrong? How can I fix this? Will I have to avoid using matrices all together? Thanks for any suggestion!

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

Can't say why, but as an alternative you can use array. Note that you should never use \\ before a displayed math environment (such as align, equation and gather), and for single line equations you generally don't want to use align/align*, but equation/equation* (see align vs equation and Which command should I use for displayed equations?).

\documentclass[a2paper]{tikzposter}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usetheme{Default}
\begin{document}
\block{My Block}{
 Some text
 \begin{equation*}
   \begin{array}{cc}
   M & A \\
   T & H
   \end{array}
 \end{equation*}
With delimiters:
 \begin{equation*}
 \left(  \begin{array}{cc}
   M & A \\
   T & H
   \end{array}
  \right)
 \end{equation*}
}
\end{document}

Use matrices in TikZposter environment?

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