[OS X TeX] Automatic labeling for references

[George Gratzer]

Could you not just simply define a command to do this?

GG



On 4-Apr-08, at 9:18 PM, Jan Anderssen wrote:
> Hello.
>
>>> But then you've still got to get the \ref commands right so you  
>>> need to know what the labels are. Or do I have this wrong?
>>
>> I assume you mean that before I can write "We already saw in  
>> \titleref{314} that …" in the source, I have to know that 314 is  
>> the label of the section I want to reference. Well, I could look up  
>> the section in the toc and then the label number at the given page  
>> number. In fact, why coulnd't the label be the chapter number  
>> followed by some symbol and then by the section number? Then I  
>> would just have to look up the toc!
>>
>> The reason I would like this to be automatic is that last year I  
>> gave up on references altogether because I got completely confused  
>> even though someone on this list had written a macro that would  
>> generate random label numbers. This way, it would be just a matter  
>> of looking up an already existing label.
>
> I often change the order of things around as I go along (sometimes  
> quite dramatically), so what was section 2.3 might become section  
> 2.7 etc. So you (I?) would either need to live with a mismatch of  
> label and actual section number then (making it kind of arbitrary),  
> or change the label and all depending \ref's all the time, which  
> seems quite tedious and error-prone unless automated.
>
> What I imagine could be more feasible is to create a label that  
> looks more like \label{sec:SomeWordsFromSectionTitle}. I usually do  
> that manually, but I imagine it might be automated - probably  
> through some sort of autocompletion mechanism, or applescript that  
> grabs hold of an immediately preceding \section{}, rather than in  
> (La)TeX.
>
> Since I don't use TexShop myself, and are rather a novice at  
> AppleScript, maybe other people could be more helpful with the  
> specifics.
>
> Cheers,
> Jan
>
>
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