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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: LyX for bill drafting
From:       Vincent van Ravesteijn <V.F.vanRavesteijn () tudelft ! nl>
Date:       2009-04-13 18:14:57
Message-ID: 49E38121.8050300 () tudelft ! nl
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Richard Heck schreef:
> Dan Fitch wrote:
>> 1. The new hyperref stuff in 1.6 is very slick. Is there any way to
>> make a "cross reference" to a section or subsection, without adding a
>> label? So the user might say "As defined in s. 10.91" without having
>> to go to section 10.91 and adding a label?
>>
>>   
> Not at present, though this functionality has been much discussed. 
> I.e., a kind of "auto-label" that exists for certain kinds of 
> elements. Come to think of it, work just done by Vincent van 
> Ravesteijn might well put this within reach. Vincent, the thought is 
> this: Use the context menu in the TOC. I'm sure there are lots of 
> issues, though, that I've not yet considered.
Yes, I've thought about this.

You could indeed imagine a context menu item in the TOC "Insert 
reference to section", that will insert a label and a reference at once. 
Or one can think of  a second tab in the cross-reference dialog showing 
all sections too.

Vincent

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