Display of Cross-References in Outliner

Jürgen Spitzmüller jspitzm at gmail.com
Mon Aug 5 11:51:56 UTC 2024


Am Sonntag, dem 04.08.2024 um 12:33 -0400 schrieb Richard Kimberly
Heck:
> The obvious thing to do would to be to go back to displaying "Ref: 
> LABEL", or whatever. But I'm wondering whether we can do better. The 
> LABEL is going to be the same for every one of the cross-references, 
> which are grouped together under the label itself. So that's
> redundant 
> (and makes the displayed string long). One option, then, would just
> be 
> to leave it off and display "Ref" and "PageRef" and so forth. But I
> was 
> also thinking about using what's shown in the dialog:
> 
>      <reference>
>      (<reference>)
> 
> and so forth, or perhaps something similar. Thoughts?

I rarely use the feature, but I would think it would make most sense to
be informed about the context in which the _reference_ is located.
Maybe the current (sub)section, footnote or whatever is the smallest
entity which has an own counter?

-- 
Jürgen


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