On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Steve Litt wrote: > OK, now I'm ready to ask for my first feature request since I asked for > character styles in 2001. We need some sort of automatic labelling so that > every part, chapter, section, subsection, subsubsection, and float in the > document. Here's why... > > Adding a label to every float is a mere inconvenience. But keeping track of > all those labels is a gargantuan task because labels are scoped document > wide. Imagine a programming language with no local variables. How ugly is > that to maintain?
Steve, Permit me a contrarian view. When I create a label I get a default initial tag. However, I prefer my own. All figure tags begin with "fig: ", all table tags begin with "tab: ", and so on. In the cross-reference dialog box I activate the sort widget and they're all in alphabetical order. I don't use numbers, but descriptive phrase. That way it doesn't matter if I move a section from one chapter to another, the label remains valid and LaTeX finds in when needed. I suspect that automating labels for everything will turn out to be more of a bother for most situations. Besides, LyX already does so much of the heavy lifting it should leave some things to us. Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
