On Friday 09 February 2007 10:20, Georg Baum wrote:
> Gerard Ateshian wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wrote a perl script, renumber.pl, for renumbering equations in LyX
> > (attached). It will take existing equation labels and renumber them
> > according to the section heading. For example, in Chapter 1, section
> > 4, subsection 2, equations will be labeled 1.4.2.1, 1.4.2.2, etc.
> > The script will not create equations labels where there were none.
>
> I don't understand why one would want to do this. Can you give an example?
> The reason why you use labels for referencing in LyX and LaTeX is that you
> don't want to think in terms of section numbers. I label my equations in
> such a way that I can remember the name, e.g. \label{maxwell-curl-diff}.
> Then it does not matter at all in what section it is.
Here's one reason. Throughout all my books I have a graphic that represents
binary search. It's used several times per book, in several chapters. If I
named them all descriptively, they'd clash. But if I named them both
descriptively AND according to where they occur, that problem's solved.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/
