Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Referable, numbered Items

[gleavem]

Basically I have several large terms and I wish to abbreviate each as a number. I then want to be able to use a \ref type command to call up that term's number elsewhere in the document. I need the numbers to appear sequentially as each term is introduced, like figures and be referable in the way a figure with a label is referable. They will likely be rearranged during the writing so I was hoping there was an auto-numbering situation for this already in LaTeX but I have not had success finding a means to do this for things that aren't figures/equations or tables.

Thanks for any insight.

[sommerfee]

Simply define a new counter with \newcounter{<name>} and use \refstepcounter{<name>} to increment it. By using \refstepcounter (instead of \stepcounter) \label and \ref will work automatically without the need of own extra code.

See also: http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/late ... nters.html