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For instance, if 0125 the counter <var>counter</var> has the value 1 then a 0126 <code>\alph{<var>counter</var>}</code> in your source will result in a lowercase 0127 letter a appearing in the output. 0128 </p> 0129 <p>All of these commands take a single counter as an argument, for 0130 instance, <code>\alph{enumi}</code>. Note that the counter name does not 0131 start with a backslash. 0132 </p> 0133 <dl compact="compact"> 0134 <dt><code>\alph{<var>counter</var>}</code> 0135 <a name="index-_005calph_007bcounter_007d"></a> 0136 </dt> 0137 <dd><p>Print the value of <var>counter</var> in lowercase letters: ‘a’, ‘b’, 0138 <small class="enddots">...</small> If the counter’s value is less than 1 or more than 26 then 0139 you get ‘<samp>LaTeX Error: Counter too large.</samp>’ 0140 </p> 0141 </dd> 0142 <dt><code>\Alph{<var>counter</var>}</code> 0143 <a name="index-_005cAlph_007bcounter_007d"></a> 0144 </dt> 0145 <dd><p>Print in uppercase letters: ‘A’, ‘B’, <small class="enddots">...</small> If the counter’s value 0146 is less than 1 or more than 26 then you get ‘<samp>LaTeX Error: Counter 0147 too large.</samp>’ 0148 </p> 0149 </dd> 0150 <dt><code>\arabic{<var>counter</var>}</code> 0151 <a name="index-_005carabic_007bcounter_007d"></a> 0152 </dt> 0153 <dd><p>Print in Arabic numbers such as ‘<samp>5</samp>’ or ‘<samp>-2</samp>’. 0154 </p> 0155 </dd> 0156 <dt><code>\roman{<var>counter</var>}</code> 0157 <a name="index-_005croman_007bcounter_007d"></a> 0158 </dt> 0159 <dd><p>Print in lowercase roman numerals: ‘i’, ‘ii’, <small class="enddots">...</small> If the 0160 counter’s value is less than 1 then you get no warning or error but 0161 LaTeX does not print anything in the output. 0162 </p> 0163 </dd> 0164 <dt><code>\Roman{<var>counter</var>}</code> 0165 <a name="index-_005cRoman_007bcounter_007d"></a> 0166 </dt> 0167 <dd><p>Print in uppercase roman numerals: ‘I’, ‘II’, <small class="enddots">...</small> If the 0168 counter’s value is less than 1 then you get no warning or error but 0169 LaTeX does not print anything in the output. 0170 </p> 0171 </dd> 0172 <dt><code>\fnsymbol{<var>counter</var>}</code> 0173 <a name="index-_005cfnsymbol_007bcounter_007d"></a> 0174 </dt> 0175 <dd><p>Prints the value of <var>counter</var> using a sequence of nine symbols that 0176 are traditionally used for labeling footnotes. The value of 0177 <var>counter</var> should be between 1 and 9, inclusive. If the 0178 counter’s value is less than 0 or more than 9 then you get ‘<samp>LaTeX 0179 Error: Counter too large</samp>’, while if it is 0 then you get no error or 0180 warning but LaTeX does not output anything. 0181 </p> 0182 <p>Here are the symbols: 0183 </p> 0184 <table> 0185 <thead><tr><th width="10%">Number</th><th width="30%">Name</th><th width="30%">Command</th><th width="30%">Symbol</th></tr></thead> 0186 <tr><td width="10%">1</td><td width="30%">asterisk</td><td width="30%"><code>\ast</code></td><td width="30%">*</td></tr> 0187 <tr><td width="10%">2</td><td width="30%">dagger</td><td width="30%"><code>\dagger</code></td><td width="30%">†</td></tr> 0188 <tr><td width="10%">3</td><td width="30%">ddagger</td><td width="30%"><code>\ddagger</code></td><td width="30%">‡</td></tr> 0189 <tr><td width="10%">4</td><td width="30%">section-sign</td><td width="30%"><code>\S</code></td><td width="30%">§</td></tr> 0190 <tr><td width="10%">5</td><td width="30%">paragraph-sign</td><td width="30%"><code>\P</code></td><td width="30%">¶</td></tr> 0191 <tr><td width="10%">6</td><td width="30%">double-vert</td><td width="30%"><code>\parallel</code></td><td width="30%">‖</td></tr> 0192 <tr><td width="10%">7</td><td width="30%">double-asterisk</td><td width="30%"><code>\ast\ast</code></td><td width="30%">**</td></tr> 0193 <tr><td width="10%">8</td><td width="30%">double-dagger</td><td width="30%"><code>\dagger\dagger</code></td><td width="30%">††</td></tr> 0194 <tr><td width="10%">9</td><td width="30%">double-ddagger</td><td width="30%"><code>\ddagger\ddagger</code></td><td width="30%">‡‡</td></tr> 0195 </table> 0196 0197 </dd> 0198 </dl> 0199 0200 0201 0202 0203 <hr/><div class='referenceinfo'> <a href='https://latexref.xyz/'> <i>Unofficial LaTeX2e reference manual</i></a></div> 0204 </body> 0205 </html>