On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Steve Litt wrote:

> Having to label chapters doesn't bother me because there are so few
> chapters (17 in my upcoming book). But there are multiple floats per
> chapter, and I know of no sane naming convention, and labels are global,
> not local to a chapter.

SteveT,

   Coupla' thoughts:

    1) Are all floats referenced other than in the immediate vicinity? They
can be referenced as "... as seen in the following figure." Actually, I find
adding a label while creating the float no more onerous than typing the
title, moving the cursor to the front of that, pressing [Enter], then going
Layout->Paragraph->Center before Insert->Graphic for each one. With all
this, what's one more step? :-)

   2) I think you'd find local labels a problem. Consider a figure in Chapter
2 that you want to reference in Chapter 11. How do you do this with local
labels?

   Besides, if writing books was easy, everyone would do it. :-) That's why
we have blogs.

Rich

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