Display of Cross-References in Outliner

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at gmail.com
Mon Aug 5 22:14:23 UTC 2024


On 8/5/24 7:51 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> 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?

I thought about this, but then realized that anything other than

     TYPE: LABEL

which we used to have, will make it impossible to filter the way one 
would naturally want to do: on the label itself. So I've done that.

Riki




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