[Tex/LaTex] why mathtools does not work for showing only equations which are referred to in the text

equationsmathtools

I am using mathtools in the following way:

\usepackage{mathtools}
\mathtoolsset{showonlyrefs,showmanualtags}

Then, to refer to equations I use \refeq{equation}.

What happens is that there is a numbering for the equation that appears in the text, but the (Eq-Number) does not appear next to the equation itself. In fact, there are no (Eq-Number) for any of the equations.

Any ideas what could cause that? Is there a way to force to have an equation number next to an equation?

Edit

Minimal example:

\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{amsfonts,eucal,amsbsy,amsthm,amsopn,amssymb}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{mathtools}

\mathtoolsset{showonlyrefs,showmanualtags}



\begin{document}


\begin{eqnarray}
A & = & B \label{eq:first}
\end{eqnarray}

see Equation ~\refeq{eq:first}

\end{document}

Best Answer

I see in your example that you are using eqnarray. This is well-known to be seriously defective, and a number of tools simply do not support it. I see that eqnarray does not show up in the mathtools manual, so I suspect the omission may not be accidental! Use the gather or align environments, as shown in the mathtools manual.

For more detail on the problems of eqnarray see the UK FAQ.

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