Sven Utcke <utcke+news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> writes:

> David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@t-online.de> writes:
> 
> > The other frequent "unreasonable" complaint (i.e., technically
> > infeasible and not really possible), namely that equation and section
> > numbers for regenerated previews should not be arbitrary, 
> 
> My main complaint about preview LaTeX :-)
> 
> > I have just fixed in the latest CVS release: using a checkbox on
> > preview-required-option-list's `counters' option will fix that.
> 
> How is it done (or maybe it simply omits the number?)?

The LaTeX style is called with a special "counters" option that
outputs all changes of counters (they all get registered in cl@@ckpt
or so) at "checkpoints" which in this case are the start and end of
any preview.

Here is the relevant file, somewhat shortened: