[OS X TeX] Referring to custom labels in enumerate environments

[Peter Pagin]

You are right. Clearly better.

Peter

Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
> HI Peter,
> On May 7, 2006, at 1:15 AM, Peter Pagin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> you could try entering
>>
>> \renewcommand{\theenumi}{T\arabic{enumi}}
>>
>> just before the environment, and then skip the optional argument 
>> (i.e. [T1.]).
>>
>> If you don't want to keep the change for other environments, just 
>> after the environment revert to
>>
>> \renewcommand{\theenumi}{\arabic{enumi}}
>
> Thanks. Yes, this is part of the suggestion in the LaTeX Companion, 
> where they mess further with \labelenumi because of the difference 
> between the labels in the enumeration and the labels in the 
> referencing. The only problem is that we don't know that 
> \arabic{enumi} is what is the default, hence not so easy to "revert" 
> to it.
>
> I think I just found an easy way to do it though, by combining your 
> idea with restricting the scope. I.e.
> {\renewcommand{\theenumi}{T\arabic{enumi}}
> \begin{enumerate}
>   \item One
>   \item Two
>   \item Three
> \end{enumerate}
> }
>
> Then the renewing of the command has no effect outside of the group, 
> and \ref commands seem to print the right thing even outside of the 
> group.
>
>> Best,
>> Peter
>>
>> Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
>>> I want to do the following, and I am wondering what the most elegant 
>>> way is:
>>>
>>> I have one particular enumerate environment, whose items I want to 
>>> number as:
>>> T1.
>>> T2.
>>> T3.
>>>
>>> etc. I used the enumerate package for this, and have currently 
>>> something like:
>>>
>>> \begin{enumerate}[T1.]
>>> \item ...\label{T1}
>>> \item ...\label{T2}
>>> \item ...\label{T3}
>>> \end{enumerate}
>>>
>>> Now, I want to use \eqref{T2} or \ref{T2}, or some other reference 
>>> tool, to get as an answer "T2", without the quotes of course, and 
>>> without the dot that appears in the item label. As it stands, these 
>>> produce "(2)" and "2" respectively. In the LaTeX Companion I found a 
>>> way to achieve this by redefining \labelenumi and using the varioref 
>>> package and \labelformat to set the format for all enumi's, but I 
>>> really only want to target this particular enumerate environment. 
>>> There are probably a number of ways to deal with this, but I am 
>>> looking for an elegant one. For now I will just go with "T\ref{T2}", 
>>> or even possibly T2, since I am not going to rearrange things too 
>>> much anyway, nor will I use the ref more than 3 times. So it is more 
>>> of an academic question, to which I'd like to know the answer. What 
>>> is the _best_ solution to this?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>> Haris
>
> Haris
>
>
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