From: "Pawel Jackowski na Onet" <jackos1@poczta.onet.pl>
Subject: Re: beginner question re: counters
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 19:41:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001201c37d42$f1066eb0$0500a8c0@best> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F68970B.4050205@zam.att.ne.jp>
> I apologize for asking such a basic question. What is the correct way
> to increment a counter such that each time a macro is used, the counter
> is augmented by 1. So far, I have \newcount\MyCounter and have tried
> \advance\MyCounter by1 and a few other things I found online, but
> whenever I try to increase its value by 1, all references to it's value
> return 1. Not a particularly useful counter ;-) .
Hmmm... It can happens for many reasons.
Try for instance
\global\advance\MyCounter by 1\relax
\the\MyCounter
% \relax is not always obligatory but treat it as a goode habit
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-17 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-17 17:16 Matthew Huggett
2003-09-17 17:41 ` Pawel Jackowski na Onet [this message]
2003-09-17 21:10 ` sorry (off topic) Pawel Jackowski na Onet
2003-09-17 22:32 ` Tobias Burnus
2003-09-19 19:00 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2003-09-21 13:51 ` beginner question re: counters Patrick Gundlach
2003-09-21 15:04 ` Matthew Huggett
2003-09-22 7:28 ` Hans Hagen
2003-09-21 15:59 ` Pawel Jackowski na Onet
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