On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:35:37AM +0300, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > \newtheorem*{app#1}{#2 A\thechapter.\arabic{apptheorem}} Actually this doesn't even get the references right: they're to the chapter only. You need a lot more effort to tell \label the current location, as newtheorem* doesn't know about the counter.