[texhax] help with equation numbers in latex

Lars Madsen daleif at imf.au.dk
Thu Jan 19 10:58:09 CET 2006


>
> \documentclass{article}
> % the following re-defines one line from latex.ltx
> % original:
> % \def\@eqnnum{{\normalfont \normalcolor (\theequation)}}
>
> \makeatletter
> \def\@eqnnum{{\normalfont \normalcolor [\theequation]}}
> \makeatother
>
> \begin{document}
> \begin{equation}
> a^2+b^2=c^2
> \end{equation}
> \end{document}
>
> but maybe there is a fancy package for doing this.
>

the mathtools package by Morten H\o gholm, provides several ways of 
configuring the equation number.


/daleif

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