Placing equation number on left with reqno option in amsart document class

Is there a way to force individual equations to place their equation numbers (or more specifically the result of a \tag*{blah}) on a specific side of the page regardless of the options to amsart.

I sometimes wish to use the equation enviornment to define 'requirements' in my papers which should look like:

R_e: equation stuff

Where R_e is the equation tag. R_e should be on the left even when reqno is passed to the documentclass. How can I accomplish this?

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If you just want to do this for the equation environment, define a command

\newcommand{\LeftEqNo}{\let\veqno\@@leqno}


and use it as

$$\LeftEqNo x^2 + y^2 = 1.$$


The align environment is implemented quite differently, and you will need the environ package used like

\usepackage{environ}
\NewEnviron{Lalign}{\tagsleft@true\begin{align}\BODY\end{align}}


Then use \begin{Lalign} ... \end{Lalign} for left-numbered align environments.

I'm afraid that various hacks of the same kind will be necessary for the other ams environments, but I can't list everything without knowing which ones you need :).

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 equation or possibly align is fine. I plan to wrap this in a special environment for this construct and it will be one of those two. – Peter Gerdes Jan 2 '11 at 0:18 When I try this (using pdflatex) I get an error: ! Undefined control sequence. \env@Lalign@process ->\tagsleft – Sam Nead Sep 9 '11 at 14:59 @Sam Nead: I assume you might have a different version of the environ package. Can you post somewhere the result of \listfiles? – Bruno Le Floch Sep 11 '11 at 17:17