\begin{enumerate}[start = X] breaks after 27

Question

I'm trying to continue an enumeration, so I'm initializing the environment as:

\begin{enumerate}[start = 27]
\item X 
\item Y
\item Z
\end{enumerate}

For which I get a big red error... Funnily, it works just fine if I change the "start" counter to 24, which means it only cracks if the counter passes 27.

Even more weirdly, I use the same thing some hundreds lines of code above, and it works just fine.

I've been troubleshooting this for 2 hours already and I can't possible imagine what's wrong with it... Any ideas?

Please write a minimal working example. See link for more details what it means. — user202729, Oct 07 '22 at 05:03
Nevertheless a guess is that things are counted from a to z, and there's no 27th character after that. — user202729, Oct 07 '22 at 05:04
If that is the case → lists - Counter too large error with \item - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange numbering - Error: Counter too large! with \alph{cntr} and cntr>26 - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange Subequation: Counter too large - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange — user202729, Oct 07 '22 at 05:06
You write, "I get a big red error." What does the error message say? Please be specific. Following up on one of the comments by @user202729 - would you by any chance have the instruction \renewcommand\theenumi{\alph{enumi}} in your document? — Mico, Oct 07 '22 at 05:40
Thanks a lot! It was indeed in a special environment in which the counter was alphabetic so it crashed after 27. It got solved rather quick with adding [label = \arabic*.] — Vlad Neacșu, Oct 09 '22 at 10:28

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 09 '22 at 10:30

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Thanks all!

It was an issue with an environment and the counter was changed to letters, therefore it crashed for > 26.

It was solved quite easily by changing the

\begin{enumerate}

to

\begin{enumerate}[label = \arabic*.]

answered Oct 09 '22 at 10:30

Vlad Neacșu

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