TeX: makeatletter and makeatother
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007Ever wondered why some TeX macros have to be put between the makeatletter and makeatother commands? Like this one:
\usepackage{remreset}
\makeatletter
\@removefromreset{footnote}{chapter}
\makeatother
which allows to keep the footnote counter from being reseted with each chapter, which would be the default behaviour in the book and report document classes.
Radhakrishnan gives an excellent, detailed explanation from which I’d like to quote: (more…)