On 04/30/2016 10:00 AM, racoon wrote:
> Thanks Jürgen. I guess your reply implies that there is no special
> function for this in LyX.
No, but it would not be hard to create a simple module that did this.
Richard
>
> A problem with the solution you posted is that it seems to work only
> in the case when the bookmark is set in a normal paragraph. Otherwise
> it seems to fail for some reason. I have attached an example.
>
> On 30.04.2016 14:53, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
>> Am Samstag, den 30.04.2016, 09:36 +0200 schrieb racoon:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In word you can create bookmarks based on a passage in the text. Is
>>> there such a feature in LyX?
>>>
>>> So basically it would work like this:
>>>
>>> 1. You mark a passage (e.g. a word).
>>> 2. You make it a bookmark.
>>> 2. You go somewhere else and insert a cross reference top the
>>> bookmark.
>>> This will lead to the content of the bookmark being inserted and a
>>> hyperlink to that passage being created.
>>>
>>> I think it is a nice idea to create hyperlinks (like in Wikipedia)
>>> to
>>> certain terms that are explained elsewhere. Also if one changes
>>> one's
>>> mind about the term one can just change it at the bookmark and it is
>>> changed everywhere in the text.
>>>
>>> (I guess it is similar to creating a definition in LaTeX
>>>
>>> \def\foo{Whatever}
>>>
>>> So one can use now \foo to insert "Whatever" in the text and can
>>> change
>>> what is actually inserted in the definition. What is missing is the
>>> hyperlink part to the bookmark. So it is not exactly the same.)
>>
>>
>> Preamble:
>>
>> \usepackage{etoolbox}
>> \usepackage{hyperref}
>> \newcommand\setbookmark[2]{%
>> \csdef{bkmk@#1}{#2}%
>> \label{bkmk:#1}%
>> #2
>> }
>>
>> \newcommand\usebookmark[1]{%
>> \hyperref[bkmk:#1]{\csuse{bkmk@#1}}%
>> }
>>
>>
>> Usage:
>>
>> \setbookmark{test}{A test!}
>> marks the bookmark "test" and prints the text "a test!"
>>
>>
>> \usebookmark{test}
>> prints the text "a test!" as a hyperlink to the former occurrence.
>>
>> HTH
>> Jürgen
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>
>
