On Wednesday 26 January 2005 10:59 am, Stephen Buonopane wrote: > > Intuitively, I doubt LyX would make me create a label for every float > > -- the > > float's already there, so I'd think that would be enough. > > AFAIK, you must manually create a label for each float. I think > technically the label is associated with the caption.
Thanks Stephen, OK, now I'm ready to ask for my first feature request since I asked for character styles in 2001. We need some sort of automatic labelling so that every part, chapter, section, subsection, subsubsection, and float in the document. Here's why... Adding a label to every float is a mere inconvenience. But keeping track of all those labels is a gargantuan task because labels are scoped document wide. Imagine a programming language with no local variables. How ugly is that to maintain? Perhaps I could preface each label with some code indicating its chapter. But what code? Chapter numbers change with the addition of a chapter. Entire chapter names are big and ugly, and can change. If these ready made labels cannot be accommodated, then at least a way of performing local scoping for intra chapter references, as well as global scoping for interchapter references. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist Webmaster * Troubleshooters.Com * http://www.troubleshooters.com
