Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> 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.
I'm not sure that this has been agreed. I often find it annoying that,
to reference a section, I have to go create the label, then return to
the point where I want to insert the reference. The reference is what I
care about. The label is just a piece of machinery I don't care about.
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.
Automatic labels wouldn't need to appear there unless they had been
referenced. The idea would be that you could reference a section (say)
directly from the TOC. Things you'd already referenced could then appear
in that list, along with any "explicit" labels you'd defined.
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.
The labels can be output only if they're referenced. That might need
some kind of double pass, but I'll bet the reference cache could be used
for this purpose already.
Richard
