On 3/22/2010 4:40 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Daniel Lewis wrote:
JEAN: I want to make sure I have gotten this information
correct. When a reference to Figure 1, Table 1, etc., is on the same
page as the Figure 1, Table 1, etc.; we just enter Figure 1 or Table
1 in the text: we do not insert a cross-reference in the text. When
the reference is on a different page, we insert a cross-reference in
the text.
If you need to refer to a figure or table, always use a
cross-reference; never type it in, because the number could change.
However, in many (most?) cases, if the figure or table is on the same
page, directly after the text that refers to it, no reference is
needed and I recommend leaving them out in that case... but you can
put them in while writing drafts and we'll take them out on the final
edit.
And when we do insert a cross-reference, we insert the reference
to "Category and Number". Correct?
Yes, correct.
--Jean
BTW, yesterday I noticed that an x-ref was incorrectly made to Table 1
instead of Table 2 in Chapter 1 of the Calc guide. Even though Table 2
was only two lines later in the chapter, but Table 1 was a dozen or so
pages prior to the incorrect x-ref.
Gary
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