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 -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863