All,
I've asked a few newbie questions about formatting cross references,
explicitly (thread
here<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/65678>)
and within a thread
(here<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/65312>)
where Jürgen Spitzmüller helped me define a custom boxfloat inset. After
many (many) hours, I've finally managed to figure out how to do it all,
so... I thought it might be of some small use to report back. A big part of
the problem was me not thinking to say up front that I was using the thesis
template example posted to this list previously, which employs *KOMA-Script
(book)* document class. Another issue which finally let me solve it all was
realising that specifying a different English dialect was breaking the
intended functionality.
My goal was: 1. to get the custom boxfloat cross reference working as for
floats, tables, etc, with the text 'Box' prepended; and 2. change default
behaviour so that section, subsection, subsubsection are all referred to as
'section'.
*Solution*:
- by default references in this are simply the numbers, and you have to
do something to them to get the naming we want. Jürgen quite rightly
suggested the use of
\newrefformat{box}{Box~\negthinspace\ref{#1}}
- but note that this only works with *Formatted reference* type, as the
command is specific to \prettyref
- now the thesis template preamble included these lines to redefine the
normal \ref command, using the \autoref functionality in {*hyperref*}. *It
was not working for me.*
\AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand{\ref}[1]{\mbox{\autoref{#1}}}}
\newlength{\abc}
\settowidth{\abc}{\space}
\addto\extras*english*{
\renewcommand{\equationautorefname}{\hspace{-\abc}}
\renewcommand{\sectionautorefname}{sec.\negthinspace}
...
}
- the most important point here is that the reference type commands are
configured to be* language specific*, and I had not realised that my
documents being set to language=British simply didn't match extras*
english*
- so by changing \extrasenglish to \extrasbritish, these reference
formatting commands now work correctly.
- the last issue was a crossref for the custom boxfloat inset. (*NB: the
label for any boxfloat must be inserted with the caption for numbering to
work properly.*) I haven't been able to figure out how to define the
\autoref version for a custom counter type, so for now all boxes must use
*Formatted reference* type, which allows this command to take effect:
\newrefformat{box}{\mbox{\hyperref[{#1}]{Box~\ref{#1}}}}
- rather than the format suggested by Jürgen (above), I used \hyperref
and the {Box } text to be consistent with \autoref — the prepended label
text is then *part of* the hyperlink. And to my happy surprise, it all
works!
HTH!
~:Justin Wood:~
PhD candidate, *Energy & Engineering school*, Murdoch
University<http://www.murdoch.edu.au/>
