Ok. I think I should write my own macro containing quote and a label option on it. But I have never done that. Could you recommend a good tutorial?
On Apr 2, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > 2012/4/2 Jacobo Myerston <[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> >> I'm writing a book in which I quote a significant number of ancient texts. >> I'm using the \quote environment for this as usual. Now, I would like to >> have a numbered label to refer back to these quotations along the book. So, >> I would like the \quote environment to behave somehow like \figure so that >> the quote is auto-numbered and labels located inside \quote get also an >> automatic number. >> >> Does anybody how to do this? >> > I would design my own macros. First you have to define an environment > that will be used to display the quotations, i.e. in your document you > will write \begin{something} ... \end{something}. This is important > because it constitutes a group and the counter used for labeling must > be used inside a group. You also have to allocate a counter. When > entering the environment you have to increment the counter by > \refstepcounter. It is not sufficient to use \stepcounter, it only > increments the counter, but \refstepcounter also sets other internal > macros used by the \label-\ref-\pageref machinery. \label must appear > inside the environment but after \refstepcounter. You should also > define the way how tha couter value will be displayed. For instance, > the definitions may be: > > \newcounter{something} > \newcommand*\thesomething{\arabic{something}} > > If you need hierarchical numbering (starting from 1 in each chapter), > you have to define a few more macros. > >> I'm using memoir. >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > -- > Zdeněk Wagner > http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ > http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
