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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