On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:29:39PM +0200, Andre Poenitz spake thusly: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:04:32PM +0200, Pascal Francq wrote: > > Hi, I have a request that could perhaps be a future feature of LyX > > concerning the references. When the user inserts a label in a > > document, LyX automatically adds a prefix (for example "cha:" for a > > chapter). This means that there exists a sort of hierarchy between the > > labels. When you have a big document with many labels, it could be > > interesting to present the list of the references during a insertion > > not as a "flat list", but as a tree. In fact, when there are a lot of > > references, it would be easier to manipulate them. > > Indeed. The label stuff is what annoys me most currently as well. > Far toi much scrolling to find the proper one and no clue whether some > label really referes to the wanted item...
The irritatingly self-righteous response to this would be 'name them better'. A solution could be (but how hard implementation-wise?) to show some context in the label list. Many labels are at the start of a header or caption. Actually this shows again why we should have multiple views of one buffer. One view can show the label while the other shows the reference. A poor man's version of this is being able to jump from one to the other. (Actually we have this -- sort of.) > > Another idea (but I don't know if anyone else find it usefull) would > > be that, when you insert a reference, the dialog box put the user > > not at the top of the list (=the first reference of the document), but > > to the closest reference to the current position in the document. -- > > This is only useful if the 'sort' checkbox is unchecked, isn't it? I think it would be useful always. Acroread does this for headers. > Andre' - Martin
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