On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 03:09:04PM -0600, Richard Belshoff wrote:
> I posted the following to comp.text.tex but I got no responses.
>
> >I'm typesetting a book using latex2e, with \documentclass{book}.
> >In Appendix A, my first displayed equation is labled as (A.1) when
> >typeset, but I would prefer it to be just (1).
> >
> >What's the best way to accomplish this?
>
> I found the "eqname" package on ctan, which allows one to relabel
> an equation, but it doesn't seem to work in the appendix. Besides,
> I don't really want to call my equation (bingo), I just want (1), (2),
> (3), ... instead of (A.1), (A.2), (A.3), ....
>
> Can any of you wizards/gurus on this list help me?
Read the source of book.cls and modify as appropriate ;-)
Was:
\renewcommand\theequation
{\ifnum \c@chapter>\z@ \thechapter.\fi \@arabic\c@equation}
So do:
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\theequation{\@arabic\c@equation}
\makeatother
Julian
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