README file accompanying "zero.sty" and "zero-test.tex" At the Department of Math and CS of Eindhoven Univ of Technology we (especially some of the CS people) have developed the habit to start numbering at zero. To support this habit, I wrote a LaTeX style file "zero.sty" that makes numbering start at zero instead of one, whenever appropriate. It is, for instance, not appropriate for things numbered with styles other than arabic, such as items in an enumerated list at the third level: these are numbered by roman numerals. The style option "zero" can also be used to make any counter start numbering at any other value of your choice. The main implementation problem is that some counters are reset by LaTeX whenever some other counter steps. For instance, this is the case with subsection numbers: the subsection counter gets reset whenever the section counter is incremented. The value to which LaTeX resets such a counter is "hardwired" into the code in several places. The style option "zero" provides a neat solution. Read the USAGE information included in the LaTeX source code of "zero.sty" for more details. Also included is a LaTeX test file "zero-test.tex" to show you what the effect is of using option "zero". You may want to change some of the options in the test file, for instance, removing "a4wide".