On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 02:30:38PM -0200, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > I often need to make a reference to an equation (mostly) in another LyX file. > > Now, I know that it's easy to cross-reference between different files if one > is inputed/included inside the other or both inside a master file. > This sort of cross references works precisely because the two files gets into the same big document somehow. So referencing something "on page 47" or "in section 1.3.9" makes sense.
> However, if I want to cross-reference equations between unrelated texts, the > trick doesn't seem to work. In a quick search, I was not able to find any > thread dealing with this neither in the list nor in the wiki pages. > You might be able to get a reference of the form "equation 3 on page 57" or "in section 1.5.4", but the page/section number refers to the pages/section in the _other_ document then. So they won't match the document the reference is printed in, causing confusion. I believe you normally use a citation when referring to a unrelated document. Helge Hafting
