Vincent van Ravesteijn schrieb:
We've had this discussion several times the last years. Auto-labeling is not useful.
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... says Uwe...
We really had this discussion several times, so what? I don't remember every detail, but finally the feature was not implemented after these discussions.
When I write a document, why should the list of labels be polluted with labels I don't reference?
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We won't add labels you don't refer to. I thought I said " 'Insert reference to section', that will insert a label and a reference at once."
I simply haven't understood what you meant with this, but see below.
.. please, don't come up again with such trivial arguments. Of course we don't insert a label for each word you write.
The triviality doesn't matter (seems that you luckily never fought with publishers). I understood it that automatic labeling means that we create a label for every section and chapter automatically.
.. so LyX could propose a name here too. For section headings the label will be correct 9 out of 10. Unless you are used to write a novel as a session heading.
I'm not a novelist but have to correct the label name all the time because labels names like "fig:Typical-current-and" are not very meaningful.
What is so unuseful to be able to "Insert [a] reference to [a] section" .. "without having to go to [that] section". Thus Insert->Reference->Section "Introduction". Then LyX proposes a label name, 9 out of 10 times you hit enter to accept and you have a reference in your document to this section.
Now I get it. This sounds sensible and we only add labels that are really referenced (so publishers are happy ;-) ). What happens when I'm referencing "Introduction" several times in a document or in a master file? How is your plan to check that LyX then recognizes and proposes the existing label?
regards Uwe
