autonum breaks align* and equation*

Question

The autonum package apparently doesn't like me to declare math modes to be unnumbered, and prefers to do this on its own. Can't really tell if this is intended behavior and if so, why.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{autonum}
\begin{document}

\begin{align*}
x &= a+b
\end{align*}

\end{document}

Answer 1

The idea of the autonum package is to automatically number only those equations that you reference in the text. Therefore using unnumbered maths environments alongside autonum does not make sense. Page 1 of the documentation says 'never use the starred form'.