Question

I have a list/sublist structure in my LaTeX document. By default, the sublist is delimited with letters, so you end up with this:

1. Item     (a) sub item     (b) sub item 

In my document, I’ve got more than 26 sub items, so I was running into a Counter overflow error, which I fixed by rewriting the sub item label, so that they now look like this

1. Item     1.1 sub item     1.2 sub item 

I’ve put a label on one of the items so that I can reference the specific step later on. The problem is that when the reference is rendered, it’s rendered using a letter, not the number of the sub item.

Here’s a sample doc that shows the problem.

\documentclass[11pt]{report}  \begin{document}  \renewcommand{\labelenumii}{\arabic{enumi}.\arabic{enumii}}  \begin{enumerate}     \item Item     \begin{enumerate}         \item \label{lbl} Label here     \end{enumerate} \end{enumerate}  Ref: \ref{lbl}  \end{document} 

This gets rendered like this:

1. Item     1.1 Label here Ref: 1a 

So instead of saying ‘Ref: 1.1’, it’s using ‘Ref: 1.a’. Is there a way to make the \ref use the numbering of the source enumeration? If not, is there anyway to generate correct references to items in a sublist with more than 26 items?

Answer 1

I’m looking at my copy of The LaTeX Companion, p.129, and from what I’m seeing I would suggest something like the following:

\renewcommand{\theenumii}{\arabic{enumii}} \renewcommand{\labelenumii}{\theenumi.\theenumii.} \makeatletter \renewcommand{\p@enumii}{\theenumi.} \makeatother 

I don’t have access to a working LaTeX environment to test this at the moment, though.