https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154400
Bug ID: 154400
Summary: Manual Set Reference and insert reference s cumbersome
and incomplete
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.5.1.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: sailnf...@gmail.com
I am putting together a multiple chapter book with a master document and I have
run into the challenge of referencing Figures, Tables, Alphabetic index and
bibliography across separate subdocuments (chapters). The notion of creating a
"Set Reference" and using "Insert Reference" for cross-referencing between
subdocuments is not only awkward and clumsy, but requires that you create your
own "database" of reference names. Having done that, when you "insert
reference" you can get the chapter number and the text that was highlighted
when you create a "set reference."
There are multiple challenges with this approach. If I attempt to "set
reference" to the caption on a Figure, if I attempt to highlight the word
"Figure" I find that the figure itself is selected and would be pasted in when
I do an "insert reference."
I know that this is not strictly the purview of the documentation team but
might be better addressed as an enhancement request for the operation of the
Libreoffice Writer implementation team. My suggestion is as follows. Every
time I perform an "update all" from a "master" document, it would be nice if
there were (optionally because it can be time consuming) the ability to create
a database table of "set references" that is browsable in the same manner that
"Headings," "Figures," and "Tables" can be browsed when you perform a normal
"cross reference." The database table would be segmented by the sub-documents
known in the "Navigator" at the time of the "update all" operation is
performed. Then I could scroll through the list and select the heading, figure
or table in the same way I would do in a single large document.
This database would literally be a file so that it does not consume large
quantities of memory. When I select an item from this list, it would
automatically "tag/create" in the source document the "set reference" that is
required and then perform an "insert reference" in the target document.
This would not be simple or easy, but is simpler than building my own table of
"Set references" that can't handle the different types of references.
Most of the necessary code exists when index tables are generated.
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