[OS X TeX] PrettyRef

[Claus Gerhardt]

I think this advice only applies in cases, where there are very few 
crossreferences. However, in any (good) mathematical textbook there are 
hundreds of crossreferences, theorems, equations, etc., so that this 
advice will fail.

Claus

On Mar 10, 2005, at 13:44, John Peterson wrote:

> Alain,
>
> I think that Herb was suggesting something like the following.
>
> \documentclass[11pt]{book}
>        \usepackage{prettyref}
>        \begin{document}
>        \chapter{Addition}\label{Chap:Addition}
> A little bit of text
>        \section{Addition of Whole Numbers}\label{Sec:AddWholeNos}
> A whole lot of text
>        \section{Addition of Decimals}\label{Sec:AddDecimals}
> A whole lot of text
>        \section{Addition of  Fractions}\label{Sec:AddFractions}
> A whole lot of text
>        \chapter{Subtraction}\label{Chap:Subtraction}
> Some words
>        \section{Subtraction of Whole 
> Numbers}\label{Sec:SubtractWholeNos}
> A whole lot of text
>        \section{Subtraction of Decimals}\label{Sec:SubtractDecimals}
> A whole lot of text
>        \section{Subtraction of  Fractions}\label{Sec:SubtractFractions}
> A whole lot of text, see \prettyref{Sec:SubtractDecimals}, more text 
> see \prettyref{Sec:AddDecimals}, even more text see 
> \prettyref{Sec:AddFractions}.
> \end{document}
>
> You will still have to remember what label you gave a chapter or 
> section, but this is easier than using \label{Add1},  \label{Add2},  
> \label{Add3}, etc.  This way, if you decide to reorder the sections, 
> say switch  \section{Addition of Decimals} and \section{Addition of 
> Decimals} the labels are still "logical" rather than becoming 
> numerically messed up, as in \label{Add1},  \label{Add3},  
> \label{Add2}.
>
> John
>
>
>
> On Mar 9, 2005, at 6:43 PM, Herb Schulz wrote:
>
>> On 3/9/05 5:06 PM, "Alain Schremmer" <Schremmer.Alain at verizon.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>       \documentclass[11pt]{book}
>>>       \usepackage{prettyref}
>>>       \begin{document}
>>>       \chapter{First}
>>>       \section{little first}\label{sec:3}
>>>       \section{little second}
>>>       \section{little third}\label{sec:2}
>>>       \chapter{Second}
>>>       \section{little first}\label{sec:1}
>>>       \section{little second}
>>>       A whole lot of text, see \prettyref{sec:1}, more text see
>>> \prettyref{sec:2}, even more text see \prettyref{sec:3}.
>>> \end{document}
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> Why are you making things hard on yourself. Give the \label's names 
>> that
>> mean something to you; e.g., based on the subject of that section. You
>> shouldn't have to keep track of numbers; that's what LaTeX does for 
>> you.
>>
>> Good Luck,
>>
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>>
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