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   `\newcounter{foo}[counter]'

   The `\newcounter' command defines a new counter named `foo'.  The
counter is initialized to zero.

   The optional argument `[counter]' causes the counter `foo' to be
reset whenever the counter named in the optional argument is
incremented.