Gary wrote: > I'm writing my thesis using lyx. > I'm not exactly sure what class to use. All of the things you mention can be redefined fairly easily. You might want to look at the koma-script classes, which have a lot of built-in customization possibilities. The documentation is very complete. You'll find it in scrguien.pdf (English) or scrguide.pdf (German). > The problem is this: > If I use the book class, the top level sectioning environment is chapter and > the numbering of the equations inherit the chapter number. Equation's on > chapter 1 will be numbered: 1.1, 1.2 ... and on chapter 2 they will be > numbered: 2.1, 2.2... This is good. However this is not really a book and I > don't want the word "Chapter" to apear in begining of each chapter. > This is trivial: \renewcommand{\chaptername}{}. > I'm more comfortable with the article class where the top level is Section. > But > then the equations don't inherit the section number. They are simply numbered > 1,2,3... > Something like: \renewcommand{\theequation}{\thesection.\arabic{equation}} should do the trick. You will want to make it a bit more complicated if you have unnumbered sections.
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