Everything LaTeX numbers for you has a counter associated with it. The
name of the counter is the same as the name of the environment or
command that produces the number, except with no \.
Below is a list
of some of the counters used in LaTeX's standard document styles to control
numbering.
part paragraph figure enumi chapter subparagraph table enumii section page footnote enumiii subsection equation mpfootnote enumiv subsubsection
Counters are printed in LaTeX by using a command generated as "
\the
" suffixed with the name of the counter. Thus, equation
numbers are printed by the \theequation
command, and
section numbers by the \thesection
command.
If you want to change the way such numbers are printed, for example,
change from arabic to Roman numerals, you need to redefine the
appropriate command, using the
\renewcommand
command.
As an example, to number equations in an appendix as A-1
,
A-2
, ... , use
\renewcommand{\theequation}{A-\arabic{equation}}
The second argument implies that the text produced by the renewed
\theequation
command will be "A-" followed by the output from
the \arabic{equation}
command, which is the value of the
equation counter, printed as an arabic number.
In List Environments the format for the
item labels is given by commands like \labelitemi
and
\labelitemii
(for the first two levels of the
Itemize Environment), and like \labelenumi
(for the Enumerate Environment), and these may
also be redefined.
There is an example of manipulating such counters in the discussion of the List Environment.
You can force a change in the number produced by any of the counters. For example, if you wanted to produce a single page numbered 13, you could use
\setcounter{page}{13}
A variety of commands for manipulating counters this way are given below.