[OS X TeX] Automatic labeling for references
Alain Schremmer
schremmer.alain at gmail.com
Sat Apr 5 10:49:52 EDT 2008
On Apr 4, 2008, at 10:18 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.
That's why I had resigned myself to resorting to looking up the toc.
> 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.
Yes, now that you mention it, that's what I had forgotten, that's why
I had given up on referencing: the depending refs, the disaster that
follows when the stuff I want to refer to moves from this section to
that section.
I think I am doomed again to no reference or do the referencing at
the very end. Still, automatic labeling of ALL sections would still
be useful at that stage.
Grateful regards
--schremmer
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