> 1. The new hyperref stuff in 1.6 is very slick. Is there any way to
> make a "cross reference" to a section or subsection, without adding a
> label? So the user might say "As defined in s. 10.91" without having
> to go to section 10.91 and adding a label?
How should that be possible? The strength of LaTeX is that everything is referenced relatively and
not absolutely. You section names, section numbers, page numbers, etc. will change from revision to
revision of your document. Therefore you add a label that is referenced instead of a number.
Since LyX 1.6.2 referencing is very easy: insert a label, then right click on it and copy it as
reference. Finally insert at the position you like.
> You could indeed imagine a context menu item in the TOC "Insert reference to
section", that will
> insert a label and a reference at once. Or one can think of a second tab in
the cross-reference
> dialog showing all sections too.
We've had this discussion several times the last years. Auto-labeling is not
useful.
When I write a document, why should the list of labels be polluted with labels I don't reference?
This way writing a book would be horror. But when the automatic labels don't appear in the list of
referable labels, then they are useless, because their only purpose is to reference them.
Furthermore keep in mind that we need to output clean LaTeX. When you give your document to the
publisher and have hundreds of unnecessary labels you'll get troubles or they even reject your
manuscript.
How would you name the labels? I name labels so that I later know what they are for and can easily
reference them in e.g. other child documents. Currently when inserting a label, LyX proposes a name
which is in most of the cases not usable.
regards Uwe
