Math & Science ⇒ Sequential Numbering of Equations

[teddybouch]

I am trying to finish up my thesis, and the format that my school requires specifies that equations should be numbered sequentially through the whole document rather than by chapter. The problem is that the style file I have does it by chapter. I had this same problem with figures and table and solved it by adding this to my preamble:

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\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup{figurewithin=none}
\captionsetup{tablewithin=none}

However, it doesn't look like the caption package can do the same for equations. Can anyone tell me how to override this? Thanks very much.

[gmedina]

Hi,

you can use the chngcntr package. Add something like this in the preamble of your document:

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\usepackage{chngcntr}
\counterwithout{equation}{chapter}

[teddybouch]

Sorry it took me so long to reply - I thought that I had subscribed to this thread, but I clearly did not. I'm having trouble installing the chngcntr package. It doesn't appear to be in the repository, and though I downloaded chngcntr.sty from Cambridge via the link in the last post, I can't figure out a way to install it. Can anyone perhaps shed some light on manual installation?

[gmedina]

Manual installation depends on the OS and on the LaTeX distribution that you use. An example, assuming a TeX Live distribution on a Linux system:

place the chngcntr.sty file in a directory like the following

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.../texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ltxmisc/

and then in a terminal run

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texhash

On a Windows machine with MiKTeX, the file should be placed in the similar corresponding directory and then you should refresh the File Name Data Base

[teddybouch]

Thanks very much! The install worked after I refreshed the file name database and the package fixed the numbering on my equations.