Auto numbering and labelling in Description environment

Question

I am trying to perform the following:

\setcounter{cnt}{1}

\begin{description}

\item[A\value{cnt} label{A1}{(A\value{cnt})}].......

---increment {cnt} by 1

\item[A\value{cnt} label{A2}{(A\value{cnt})}].......

\end{description}

\ref{A1} should give A1 and \ref{A2} should give A2 and so on.

Basically I want to add a sequence of numbers to the item description and add a label to each of those items and when I refer using that label, the number assigned to that label should show.

Answer 1

As TeXnician says, the enumerate environment is better for this. I highly recommend the enumitem package because it gives an easy interface for customising labels and the layout of list environments, such as enumerate, itemize, description, ....

The following code uses enumitem to do what (I think) you want:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}

  \begin{enumerate}[label=A\arabic*]
    \item\label{A1}.......
    \item\label{A2}.......
  \end{enumerate}

Look at \ref{A1} and \ref{A2}.

\end{document}

Here is the output: