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[Alan Munn]

At 9:07 PM +0100 3/10/05, Sergei Mariev wrote:
>I think I know the problem. I am working on a critical edition where 
>I use hundreds (if not thousands) crossreferences. Thinking up a new 
>lable is quite hard, and it is even harder to remember if you have 
>already used the label or not, to avoid multiple labels. What I did 
>in my dissertation was to write a perl script which generates random 
>labels. Every time it generates a new label, it appends it to file. 
>Every time it generates a lable itfirst  looks into the file to see 
>if this number has been in use. Then I wrote a macro in the TexShop 
>which asks the perl script to generate a label and pastes it at the 
>current cursor position. This way I can generate a new label without 
>thinking much about it and I know that this lablel is unique. Is 
>this something you are looking for?

Hello, I would be very interested in seeing this.  In linguistics we 
number each example we discuss, and it would be great to have such a 
tool.

Alan

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