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13.1 \alph \Alph \arabic \roman \Roman \fnsymbol: Printing counters

All of these commands take a single counter as an argument, for instance, \alph{enumi}.

\alph
prints counter using lowercase letters: `a', `b', ...
\Alph
uses uppercase letters: `A', `B', ...
\arabic
uses Arabic numbers: `1', `2', ...
\roman
uses lowercase roman numerals: `i', `ii', ...
\roman
uses uppercase roman numerals: `I', `II', ...
\fnsymbol
prints the value of counter in a specific sequence of nine symbols (conventionally used for labeling footnotes). The value of counter must be between 1 and 9, inclusive.

The symbols mostly aren't supported in Info, but here are the names:

          asterix(*) dagger ddagger section-sign paragraph-sign parallel
          double-asterix(**) double-dagger double-ddagger