Andreas Döring wrote:
>
> During writing my thesis I ran into this problem:
> I use chemical reactions and numerical equations in the text. The
> problem is, to number the different equations in a different way, like:
>
> 1+1=2 (2.1)
> 1+2=3 (2.2)
>
> but for chemical reaction something like
>
> C+O2->CO2 (R. 2.1)
>
> and so on.
>
> The equations and reactions are written in math-mode and the automatic
> numbering was done
> by using M-m n.
there are some chemical packages on ctan for this very special
behaviour. have a look at it.
Herbert
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