General ⇒ gb4e | Manual Identifiers with Labels and References

[fauxpas]

So, I'm wondering if I'm missing the obvious here, but I've got the following problem: I'm writing more or less a summary of a paper and want to take the numbering of the examples from there to make it clearer. But I also want to be able to refer to the examples with \ref commands.

My first example would look a bit like this, then (it's a bit stupid because it's actually 1a/b in the original text, so I could just use \ex, but I can't reprint every single example in my summary):

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\begin{exe} 
   \exi{(1)} \label{one} lorem ipsum
	\begin{xlist}
		\exi{a.}[\#]{dolor sit amet}
		\exi{b.}[]{consetetur...}
	\end{xlist}
\end{exe}

Now, that works fine, and renders correctly, but when I do \ref{one} in the text, it prints "2". I don't know why it's 2, but, well, yeah. Is there a way to get it to work somehow without doing a separate \setcounter{exx}{0} for every example? (which is the least ugly solution I've found so far)

edit: I've come to realize that doing it with the \setcounter method is actually easier than manually doing every single one, so while it would be cool to know a different way, there is no need to try to figure out a different solution

[cgnieder]

Would you please make this a complete minimal working example so one can just copy, paste, and compile? exe is not a standard LaTeX environment.

Regards

[fauxpas]

Woops, forgot about that, sorry

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{scrartcl}	
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{gb4e}
\begin{document}
\ldots lorem ipsum: \ref{one}, \ref{onea}
\begin{exe} 
   \exi{(1)} \label{one} lorem ipsum
        \begin{xlist}
                \exi{a.}[\#]{dolor sit amet} \label{onea}
                \exi{b.}[]{consetetur...}
        \end{xlist}
\end{exe}
\end{document}

That should do the trick, although in that case the \ref doesn't print anything (\pageref still works). gb4e is the package I mentioned in the post title and it provides the exe-environment. I looked at the documentation and didn't find anything that would cover my example. But luckily the setcounter-method seems to work well, so unless you're bored, there isn't really a need to come up with another solution

[cgnieder]

From what I understand from looking at the documentation and the definitions of \ex and \exi the latter is not meant for the general use but for exceptions when one needs to specify an identifier manually. And this is why it does not set a referable counter. This could be difficult anyway since the allowed identifiers are arbitrary.

I can only see two ways around:

• Use \ex and the automatic numbering instead or, if this is not an option for you,
• introduce an own counter

Regards