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\newcounter

\newcounter{newname}[oldcounter]

The \newcounter command defines a new counter named newname. The optional argument oldcounter must be the name of an already defined counter; if present the new counter, newname, will be reset whenever oldcounter, the counter named in the optional argument, is incremented.


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Revised: Sheldon Green, 29 Jun 1995.