
Some document languages (notably LaTeX) automatically prefix numbers when
typesetting sections, subsections, tables, figures etc..  Other document
languages (e.g. HTML) unfortunately don't. 

Therefore, a macro package that converts a Yodl document to LaTeX doesn't need
to provide the numbering of sections etc.. However, if you do want the
numbering and if you want to convert documents to, say, HTML, then you must
take care of the numbering yourself.

This section describes the counters in Yodl: how to create a new counter, how
to use it, etc..
