Problem using etaremune (reversing the labels of items in a list)

Question

I am using the etaremune package to have the labels decreasing instead of increasing. I am writing my CV and would like to put reversing numbers for my publications. For some reason, when I create a list using \begin{etaremune}, the labeling of the items is not affected and remains increasing instead of decreasing. The following is the preamble of my CV document. In the document I used the res style file which can be found in this link.

\documentclass[margin,line]{res}

\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[lofdepth,lotdepth]{subfig}
\usepackage{etaremune}

\oddsidemargin -.5in
\evensidemargin -.5in
\textwidth=6.0in
\itemsep=0in
\parsep=0in

\newenvironment{list1}{
  \begin{list}{\ding{113}}{%
      \setlength{\itemsep}{0in}
      \setlength{\parsep}{0in} \setlength{\parskip}{0in}
      \setlength{\topsep}{0in} \setlength{\partopsep}{0in} 
      \setlength{\leftmargin}{0.17in}}}{\end{list}}
\newenvironment{list2}{
  \begin{list}{$\bullet$}{%
      \setlength{\itemsep}{0in}
      \setlength{\parsep}{0in} \setlength{\parskip}{0in}
      \setlength{\topsep}{0in} \setlength{\partopsep}{0in} 
      \setlength{\leftmargin}{1em}}}{\end{list}}

\hypersetup{pdfauthor = {AF}, colorlinks = true, urlcolor = blue, bookmarks = false}

I can overcome this problem by providing the starting label such as the following:

\section{\sc Peer-reviewed publications}    
\begin{etaremune}[leftmargin=0pt, start=34]
....
....
\end{etaremune}

If I remove start=34, the labeling becomes increasing: 1, 2, ..., 34.

What could be the problem? Is there a better package for reversing the labeling of a list? Could someone please help me?

Answer 1

The class res.cls issues \nofiles, which means that etaremune can't write off the last value in the .aux file.

Either remove the \nofiles from res.cls or call it as

\let\latexnofiles\nofiles
\let\nofiles\relax
\documentclass[margin,line]{res}

and use \latexnofiles if you ever need it in such a document.

In my opinion issuing \nofiles in the class is a very bad idea; for instance, hyperref will have a hard time in doing its business.