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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: LaTeX renew theequation
Keywords: section, equation
Message-ID: <1351@sas.UUCP>
Date: 27 Nov 89 16:08:37 GMT
References: <3148@tahoe.unr.edu>
Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Distribution: usa
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <3148@tahoe.unr.edu> mikew@wheeler.UUCP (Mike Whitbeck) writes:
|In LaTeX {article} I would like to have equation numbers of the
|form <section-number>.<equation-number> with the equation
|numbers reset in each section.
|
|do I have to put a \setcounter{equation}{1} in each section by
|hand or is there an easier way (in case I want to undo this
|change)?

\makeatletter %unless in style file
\@addtoreset{equation}{chapter}
\makeatother %unless in style file

(See latex.tex for more info.)
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