Counters (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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## 13 Counters

Everything LaTeX numbers for you has a counter associated with it. The name of the counter is often the same as the name of the environment or command associated with the number, except that the counter’s name has no backslash `\`. Thus, associated with the `\chapter` command is the `chapter` counter that keeps track of the chapter number.

Below is a list of the counters used in LaTeX’s standard document classes to control numbering.

    part            paragraph       figure          enumi
    chapter         subparagraph    table           enumii
    section         page            footnote        enumiii
    subsection      equation        mpfootnote      enumiv
    subsubsection

The `mpfootnote` counter is used by the `\footnote` command inside of a minipage (see minipage). The counters `enumi` through `enumiv` are used in the `enumerate` environment, for up to four levels of nesting (see enumerate).

Counters can have any integer value but they are typically positive.

New counters are created with `\newcounter`. See \newcounter.

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