%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 3-3-4 on page 131.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{calc,pifont}  \newcounter{local}
\renewcommand\theenumi{\protect\setcounter{local}%
  {171+\the\value{enumi}}\protect\ding{\value{local}}}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\theenumi}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\item text inside list, text inside list, \label{l1}
      text inside list, more text inside list;
\item text inside list, text inside list, \label{l2}
      text inside list, more text inside list;
\item text inside list, text inside list, \label{l3}
      text inside list, more text inside list.
\end{enumerate}
l1=\ref{l1}  l2=\ref{l2}  l3=\ref{l3}
\end{document}