%% %% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed %% %% Example 4-3-3 on page I-336 in "lineno --- Numbering lines of text". %% %% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach %% %% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions %% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c %% of this license or (at your option) any later version. %% %% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details. %% \documentclass{tlc3exa} \pagestyle{empty} \setcounter{page}{6} \setlength\textwidth{207.0pt} \addtolength\textwidth{-30pt} \addtolength\parindent{-6pt} % fudge the example a bit for the box size %StartShownPreambleCommands \usepackage{amsmath,breqn,lineno} \linenumbers %StopShownPreambleCommands \begin{document} All is fine before a standard \LaTeX\ display: \[ x \neq y \] and as of 2022 also before \texttt{amsmath} displays: \begin{align} x \neq y \end{align} However, we do not get line numbers in front of displays from other packages, for example, those from the \texttt{breqn} package: \begin{dmath} 0 < x = x_0 + x_1 + x_2 + \dots + x_{n-1} + x_n \end{dmath} They only show up again after the display. \end{document}