General ⇒ Counters of procedures and algorithms

[shay zakov]

I'm using the "algorithm2e" package, and the "algorithm" and "procedure" environments it defines. Whenever I add a new "procedure", it also increases the counter for the algorithms, so when I'm using:

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\begin{algorithm}
...
\end{algorithm}

\begin{procedure}
...
\end{procedure}

\begin{algorithm}
...
\end{algorithm}

I get something like:

Algorithm 1: first algorithm name
...

Procedure procedure name
...

Algorithm 3: second algorithm name
...


The question is: how do I enforce that procedures would not increase the counter of algorithms?

I've tried to use

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\addtocounter{algorithm}{-1}

after procedures and it did nothing, and I've tried

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\setcounter{algorithm}{<new value>}

before the algorithm, and it produced the error "No counter 'algorithm' defined."

Any ideas?

[gmedina]

Hi,

we will need a minimal working example (MWE) allowing us to reproduce the undesired behaviour. I ask you for this MWE since the following simple example behaves well:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{algorithm2e}

\begin{document}

\begin{algorithm}[H]
\caption{How to write algorithms}
\end{algorithm}
%
\begin{procedure}
\caption{How to write procedures()}
\end{procedure}
%
\begin{algorithm}
\caption{How to write algorithms}
\end{algorithm}

\end{document}

[shay zakov]

Thanks gmedina,

As I run your example and it still produced wrong numbers, I understood that I have an old version of the algorithm2e package. I've replaced the installed 3.9 version with the 4.01 version, and now it is working.

Thanks again,

Shay

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