\alph \Alph \arabic \roman \Roman \fnsymbol (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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### 13.1 `\alph \Alph \arabic \roman \Roman \fnsymbol`: Printing counters

Print the value of a counter, in a specified style. For instance, if the counter counter has the value 1 then a `\alph{counter}` in your source will result in a lowercase letter a appearing in the output.

All of these commands take a single counter as an argument, for instance, `\alph{enumi}`. Note that the counter name does not start with a backslash.

`\alph{counter}`

  Print the value of counter in lowercase letters: ‘a’, ‘b’, ... If the counter’s value is less than 1 or more than 26 then you get ‘`LaTeX Error: Counter too large.`’

`\Alph{counter}`

  Print in uppercase letters: ‘A’, ‘B’, ... If the counter’s value is less than 1 or more than 26 then you get ‘`LaTeX Error: Counter too large.`’

`\arabic{counter}`

  Print in Arabic numbers such as ‘`5`’ or ‘`-2`’.

`\roman{counter}`

  Print in lowercase roman numerals: ‘i’, ‘ii’, ... If the counter’s value is less than 1 then you get no warning or error but LaTeX does not print anything in the output.

`\Roman{counter}`

  Print in uppercase roman numerals: ‘I’, ‘II’, ... If the counter’s value is less than 1 then you get no warning or error but LaTeX does not print anything in the output.

`\fnsymbol{counter}`

  Prints the value of counter using a sequence of nine symbols that are traditionally used for labeling footnotes. The value of counter should be between 1 and 9, inclusive. If the counter’s value is less than 0 or more than 9 then you get ‘`LaTeX Error: Counter too large`’, while if it is 0 then you get no error or warning but LaTeX does not output anything.

  Here are the symbols:

  Number | Name | Command | Symbol
  --- | --- | --- | ---
  1 | asterisk | `\ast` | *
  2 | dagger | `\dagger` | †
  3 | ddagger | `\ddagger` | ‡
  4 | section-sign | `\S` | §
  5 | paragraph-sign | `\P` | ¶
  6 | double-vert | `\parallel` | ‖
  7 | double-asterisk | `\ast\ast` | **
  8 | double-dagger | `\dagger\dagger` | ††
  9 | double-ddagger | `\ddagger\ddagger` | ‡‡

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