On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:17:30PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > 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'.
Short cuts to 'classes' of labels, i.e. M-i R s would bring up a list of all section labels, M-i R e of all equations etc. M-i R S could bring up a list of _all_ sections, and selecting one without a label would automatically insert a label 'sec:5.1.1' in the section header as well as the reference 'as usual'. > 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.) Jumping around in the document is a real pain. My favourite method to do so in 'less' or 'vi' is to search for a 'unique' piece of text of which I know it is located near the target. Due to the annoyances of LyX's S&R this is near impossible (The three most annoying things: No wrap around at top/bottom of doc, the dialog window hides part of the main text, and Find does not find strings in labels etc. So this is close to useless for this purpose). > > > 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. Ok, so implement this. But I think the improvement is marginal compared to e.g. tripling the size of the label list box in the reference dialog. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)
