lncs - Changing the counter for a specific environment

Question

I am using the llncs document class and I need to set the counter for the environment 'remark', so that when I use \begin{remark} ... \end{remark} I obtain Remark 1 wherever I am in the document.

How can I do it? Is it possible to define a new counter and then force remark to use that one?

P.S. I should not define a new environment

EDIT

I am sorry but maybe I did not explain myself very well: I do not want to fix the counter of the remark to be always 1. I just want it to start from 1, and then increase normally. So the first remark will be Remark 1, the second will be Remark 2, and so on. As it is now, it seems the remark environment is sharing the counter with theorems, corollaries, etc. and I do not want this.

Here is a MWE:

\documentclass[11pt,envcountsame,a4paper]{llncs}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
%\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\numberwithin{theorem}{section}
\numberwithin{lemma}{section}
\numberwithin{definition}{section}
\numberwithin{equation}{section}
\numberwithin{figure}{section}
\numberwithin{corollary}{section}


\linespread{1.2}

\begin{document}

\section{My first section}

\begin{theorem}
Here I state a very interesting theorem
\end{theorem}

\begin{lemma}
Here I state a very interesting lemma
\end{lemma}

\begin{definition}
Here I state a very interesting definition
\end{definition}

\begin{remark}
And here I would like to state a very interesting remark, numbered as Remark 1
\end{remark}


\end{document}

Answer 1

Update

If the envcountsame document class option is given, all llncs defined theorems use the theorem counter as shared counter.

Now, envcountsame enables \newaliascnt, defining an alias counter, which in turn checks (for this question relevant) for \c@remark if it already exists. In order to decouple remark from theorem, \c@remark must be \relaxed and redefined as a new counter.

\documentclass[envcountsame]{llncs}


\makeatletter
\if@envcntsame
\let\c@remark\relax
\newcounter{remark}
\fi
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\begin{remark}
A remark
\end{remark}

\begin{theorem}
Foo
\end{theorem}

\begin{theorem}
Another Foo
\end{theorem}
\begin{remark}
  Another remark
\end{remark}

\begin{remark}
Yet another remark
\end{remark}



\begin{remark}
And now another counter value for remark after resuming
\end{remark}


\end{document}

Old stuff...

I doubt the usability of setting remark counter to 1, but here is a way with \AtBeginEnvironment

\documentclass{llncs}

\usepackage{xpatch}

\AtBeginEnvironment{remark}{\setcounter{remark}{0}}

\begin{document}

\begin{remark}
A remark
\end{remark}

\section{Foo}

\begin{remark}
  Another remark
\end{remark}

\begin{remark}
Yet  Another remark
\end{remark}


\end{document}

Another possibility using xassoccnt and its Suspend feature

\documentclass{llncs}

\usepackage{xassoccnt}

\setcounter{remark}{1} % Set it to 1 
\SuspendCounters{remark} % suspend it 

\begin{document}

\begin{remark}
A remark
\end{remark}

\section{Foo}

\begin{remark}
  Another remark
\end{remark}

\begin{remark}
Yet another remark
\end{remark}

\ResumeSuspendedCounters{remark}


\begin{remark}
And now another counter value for remark after resuming
\end{remark}


\end{document}

Answer 2

This sounds like a complete senseless requirement. Why using a number at all then? But if you want:

\documentclass{llncs}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\renewcommand\theremark{1}
\begin{document}
\begin{remark}
abc
\end{remark}

\begin{remark}
abc
\end{remark}

\end{document}