Provides commands \setcounterref and \addtocounterref which use the section (or whatever) number from the reference as the value to put into the counter, as in: ...\label{sec:foo} ... \setcounterref{foonum}{sec:foo} Commands \setcounterpageref and \addtocounterpageref do the corresponding thing with the page reference of the label. No .ins file is distributed; process the .dtx with plain TeX to create one.