Ben Cazzolato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
[Chris Eliasmith suggestes cross-referencing between documents]
> This is already possible. You can cross reference labels in other docs
> cause I needed to do this with my thesis (split into chapters). The trick
> is to open the two (or more docs you need). Go Insert Reference in the doc
> that has the reference, then switch to the other doc in which you want to
> insert it.
I tried it and it didn't work. So I figured 1.0.4pre1 (yes, I'm that
obsolete) wasn't good enough and downloaded a fresh CVS copy and compiled it
(no errors with gcc 2.95 19990728! Cool!) and it still didn't work. Then I
thought about it a bit, and reread what he wrote, and it works (and may have
worked in 1.0.4 for all I know.)
The key here, which Ben said but I didn't get, is that you have to leave the
Insert Reference popup OPEN while you switch docs. If you close the popup,
and then switch docs, and reopen, then only the new doc's labels are
available.
This is of course not optimal, even if it works. If it didn't allow
cross-referencing between docs, I would even call it a bug that the labels
listed in the popup don't change to reflect the current doc.
Have people thought about fixes? The simplest (?) would be to list all the
labels from all open docs. However, if you have, say, the User Guide,
Extended, and a few other docs open, that could get ugly. Another option
would be to have a button that toggles between all the labels or just from
the current doc. Even better would be a nesting thing like in the file
browser. You list all the labels from the current doc, and in boldface, the
names of all other docs. Clicking on that shows/hides the labels from that
doc. What do you think?
-Amir
