On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:28:41AM +0100, Monthadar Al-Jaberi wrote: > Hi! > > Is there a way to mark some text, and then put a copy of it somewhere > else in the document, so that when ever I change the original text the > copy changes with it?
No, but. . . > What I am think of is to have a cross-reference, and beside it the > name of the chapter/section but I don't want to change in many places > every time I change the name of chapter/section. . . .put a label on the section or chapter, and then just use the cross-references feature (maybe with a formatted reference). This works nicely. In fact, the excellent cross-reference feature is one of the two primary reasons I still use LyX and LaTeX based things instead of OpenOffice.org, given that the latter is in much wider use and can deliver a document format in even wider use. A -- Andrew Sullivan [email protected] Shinkuro, Inc.
