On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 08:47:19AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Jose" == Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Jose> Where are they used and why can't the be dropped? Today is
> Jose> friday so this question is pertinent...
>
> For example, if a user wants to have eqquations numbered by section,
> the current answer is to add to the preamble
>
> \renewcommand\theequation{\thesection.\arabic{equation}}
> \@addtoreset{equation}{section}
>
> Because of the second line, this will only work in between \makeatxxx
> statements. It happens that LyX inserts those automatically, which in
> retrospect was probably an error.
It is possible to remove the auto generation of the \makeat* commands.
When reading an old file, if the preamble contains @, then the makeat
commands will be added to the preamble: they will appear in the preamble
dialog (so the user can delete them if they are not necessary).
