{counters} is about macro writing involving counters. For general questions about numbering document elements, use {numbering}.
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Making calculations using counter
I need to use the counter to make some computations inside loops. For instance,
I want to write a for loop to get the following:
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Lemma numbering by first instance of referencing
My document is long with proofs broken into several lemmas and many of them are in the appendix. However, it seems odd when I am using Lemma 25 (which should ideally be Lemma 1) to prove Lemma 2.
It ...
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How retrieve items in a list of words by number?
I'm working on a character sheet for the Fate RPG, which rates its skills with a numerical scale that corresponds to an adjective scale. I've been trying to write a macro that will take \skillAdj{4} ...
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How to set the number of the first citation?
I am using BibTeX and natbib for my citations. In the bibliography the first entry usually starts with [1]. Now I would like to shift all the numbers in the bibliography and text by a certain offset, ...
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Labeling problems with exam class usage when using multiple chapters
Using the exam document class I'm trying to create a questions/answers-sheet for a book. When working on the first chapter, everything worked nicely. When I came to the second chapter, I realized I ...
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Alternative numbering for theorem
I am using thmtools as a front end to amsthm and I have a definition environment as follows.
\declaretheorem[
style=mydefinitionstyle,
name=Definition,
numberwithin=chapter
]{definition}
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Count number of figures, tables and citations in report class
I'm using report documentclass and trying to use totcount for counting figures, tables and references, but there are two problems:
Figures and tables counters are reset for each chapter, so ...
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restating a theorem using theomac.sty
I am trying to restate a theorem environment using theomac.sty which floats around, following a suggestion I received here:
how do I refer back to counters?
The package I downloaded loads well, but ...
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Change theorem counter in Springer template
I used Springer template for my book, more concrete I used svmono.
Here is a MWE, that is the shortened version of my template file.
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How to find out how many chapters are in a part?
Is there some counter that holds the number of \chapter that are in a \part? Or do I need to define and run my own counter?
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Cross-refencing a custom counter in \alph style?
I made a 'hypothesis' custom counter in order to let LaTeX handle my hypothesis reference. My code is
\newcounter{hypothese}
\refstepcounter{hypothese}\label{hypo:lenght_of_words}
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Completely disable automatic incrementing of section and subsection counters?
I'm using LaTeX as a final build step from a specific legal source (a code of laws) that already has numbering - which is not entirely logical. So, the auto-stepping section & subsection numbering ...
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How to implement two figure counters with proper hyperlinks in hyperref in latex?
I want to typeset a book with a quiz in it. I want to have two types of figures:
text figures: These are indexed i, ii (roman)
quiz figures: These figures are related to the quiz, and should have ...
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My own page number from file {counters}
I would like to add my own page number in my publications.
I have file: numerki.tex
zzzero
jEden
dWa
trZy
cztery
...
dwadzIescia
etc......
How I can add counter \counter\cyferki from file. each ...
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Part numbering with suffixes: I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IV,
I would like to have my parts numbered like this:
I, II, IIIa, IIIb, ... , IV, ...
I have written some code which works fine. But when using hyperref, I get this warning:
destination with the same ...
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1answer
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Easy-to-use reference-able environment for restating theorem-like environments?
This question is a development of the same issue as this one; following my own answer and later comment there, I decided it deserves a spin-off.
I would like to define an environment for restating ...
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1answer
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How to refer to the count value of number of lines in a lstlisting
I need to refer to to the count value of the number of lines in a listing. Is there a way to do that ?
\lstinputlisting[caption={SPARQL query used...},label={lst:sqry}]{codes/sparql_query.sparql}
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How to adjust a counter depending on whether or not we are inside a section or subsection
I want to create an exercise environment that can be used in either section, subsection, etc. As an illustration, consider the following:
when in section 1, the third example should be titled as ...
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Do assignments need to be appended by % to remove the trailing white spaces?
The following shows code snippet taken from multido.tex. I noticed assignments are not ended with %.
See \dimen@=#1\advance\dimen@#2 in
\def\multido@step@d#1#2{%
\dimen@=#1\advance\dimen@#2
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Resetting theorem counters: \section and (missing) \subsection
Suppose I define a new theorem "Theorem" and declare that its counter should be reset whenever the subsection counter is incremented or reset:
\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[subsection]
At some ...
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TeX, LaTeX capabilities in counting occurrences in text of chars defined in a given list
I am asking this question in part because I am not completely aware of TeX, LaTeX capabilities. Imagine that I want to count the number occurrences of charecters defined in a certain list. The usage ...
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1answer
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Resume option similar to enumitem package for paralist package
I would like to know if it is possible to generate a resume option similar to that in the enumitem package for the paralist package. Note that it is not possible to add something like [resume] or ...
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Adding half points/marks to question counter
I would like to be able to add half marks to my questions, but I don't know how to handle these with\stepcounter. Below is part of my style file, please could you help? I essentially want to say ...
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Defining TeX count in a group
I thought that TeX counts were local definitions, but that is not what I am seeing. I was expecting that if I used \newcount within a group, that the etoolbox \ifdefcounter would say that the counter ...
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Numbering exceeding the 26 letter alphabet
After reading this answer http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/52604/10898 I am unable to employ the alphalph package to replace the counter in either levels. See the code below:
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Counting index entries
Is there a way to count the number of entries in an .idx file? Currently I'm using the following to accomplish the job but I'm wondering if there is an all TeX/LaTeX way to accomplish the same thing. ...
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Write a \setcounter command to a file
I try to write a setcounter command to a file (using the newfile package) by something like the following
\addtostream{mystream}{\protect\setcounter{mycounter}{\myvariable}}
However, since the ...
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A new kind of “symbol wrapping”
alphalph defines three methods for continuing a set of symbols if you hit the end.
alph continues like so: a,b,c…z,aa,ab,ac…
mult continues like so: a,b,c…z,aa,bb,cc…
wrap continues like so: ...
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Counting and Displaying number of views of the pdf file, using pdfLaTeX [closed]
I am looking for a method that can keep track of how many times a PDF file is viewed and display the information in the PDF file itself.
Ex. suppose the file is viewed for the first time (the system ...
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Counting the total number of theorems
I have:
\usepackage{amsthm}
\newtheorem{problem}{Problem}
....
\begin{problem}...\end{problem}...
...
\begin{problem}...\end{problem}...
In the first page of the document, how can I know the number ...
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1answer
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How can I change the counters of tables in the appendices? [duplicate]
I have multiple appendices and in some appendices I have tables. What I want is that each appendix itself has a letter as a number (e.g. Appendix A: title). A second thing that I want to achieve is ...
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How do I create a forward reference to a user-defined counter?
I have created a counter to count enclosures:
\newcounter{enclosure}{0}
At the bottom of each enclosure I put:
\addtocounter{enclosure}{1}\vfill\hfill\Enclosure \arabic{enclosure}\clearpage
And ...
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enumitem-shortlabels: How to change the counter of items? [duplicate]
I use the enumitem package with shortlabels.
\usepackage[shortlabels]{enumitem}
Now I've got
\begin{enumerate}[(L 1)]
\item blablabla
\item blablabla
\end{enumerate}
and it goes like ...
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Complex parsing of arguments in new environments
I am trying to build an invoice generation system in LaTeX which will be easy and maintainable. Right now we are using longtable and a preprocessing layer. I would like to change this to a .sty and ...
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Counter increase with new page
How can I increase my counter with every new page and reset to 0 again when it comes to a new chapter?
I know that I can link my counter to a chapter so that it can be reset on every new chapter by:
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Referencing equation counter value in custom float caption
I have used the float package to create an equation float, eqfloat, so I can add captions to equations. Within the eqfloat I used the equation environment to typeset the math.
I want to keep the ...
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How to refer to a chapter with a word
I would like to refer to my chapters with the notation "First Chapter", "Second Chapter" etc, rather than "Chapter 1", "Chapter 2", etc. How can I do this?
\documentclass{scrreprt}
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Manual exercise question numbering
I am using exercise package to list exercises/questions.
I am defining exercise list like this:
\begin{ExerciseList}
\Exercise{Exercise title}
\ExeText
Some exercise introduction
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Programmatically setting a counter to a substring
I'm trying to set a counter based on the name of the current job. I've got the number I need by doing something like \substring{\jobname}{5}{5}} using the stringstrings package, and if I just output ...
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Figure counter and figure label issues [duplicate]
i ve got an issue with Figure counting and, i think, labeling. Though I set the counter for figures at 0, my first figure, that I d like to have counted as 'Fig.1' and that is labeled as ...
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How to refer to number of items in a list before the list appears in the .tex file?
I would like LaTeX to "know" how many items there are in a certain list. I want this number to be stored in a variable. In such a way I hope that this variable is sampled during the first compilation ...
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Count and use the number of items in advance
When writing LaTeX code, I often successively make changes like adding or removing items. I'd like to have TeX count and update the number of items in the list automatically, as in
There are ...
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1answer
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Date and time macros in Chinese
Is there a way to get time and date stamps, or other standard counters, to appear in Chinese? I am using xeCJK.
Package babel (with \selectlanguage{french} etc. in context) makes it simple for the ...
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votes
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Output two sided, but only on recto page — occasional images on verso
I am preparing a thesis. In order to reduce the number of physical sheets of paper, I need to print certain figures/tables on the verso side. However the university regs state that, while figs/tables ...
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How to use a counter to set section or chapter or subsection based on counter value?
Suppose I have my own counter as in
\newcounter{x}
\setcounter{x}{0}
and now I want to start a new "section" based on the value of x. For example, if x==-1 I want \part, and if x==0 then it will ...
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square root of number in counter
I would like to get the square root of a number which I have stored into a counter. I have been using the calc package for summation and multiplication operations, but I cannot find anything like
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How I manage two counters for a page
I need to number the pages of an article from 1 to n inside the article (named here artpage), but also the pages included in a volume.
\newcounter{artpage}
\setcounter{artpage}{1}
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\expandafter and counters not playing nicely
My google-fu has finally failed me...
I'm trying to write a package that will allow you say \addauthor{name, email} several times and have the title page properly formatted. Here is a minimal example ...
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No room for a new \count with datatool
This question led to a new feature in a package:
datatool
Update: 2013-1-19
The MWE worked fines with the new (v2.13) version of the datatool package using \DTLnewdbonloadfalse. But in my ...
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Using psfrag with LaTeX counters (insert counter number directly in eps figure)?
I am writing an organic chemistry dissertation using (pdf)LaTeX. The content of the thesis contains a large amount of numbered chemical structures. The chemical structure drawings were generated using ...
