Index: article.el
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RCS file: /sources/auctex/auctex/style/article.el,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 article.el
--- article.el	17 Mar 2005 10:02:06 -0000	1.4
+++ article.el	15 Jan 2013 10:35:34 -0000
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
 (TeX-add-style-hook
  "article"
  (lambda ()
-   (LaTeX-largest-level-set "section")))
+   (LaTeX-largest-level-set "section")
+   ;; article.cls defines the following counters in addition to the ones
+   ;; defined in `latex.ltx'
+   (LaTeX-add-counters "part" "section" "subsection" "subsubsection" 
+                       "paragraph" "subparagraph" "figure" "table" "secnumpth" 
+                       "tocdepth")))
 
 ;;; article.el ends here