Outliner Bug (OSX?)

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 8/4/24 2:59 PM, Alexander Dunlap wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2024, at 12:13 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>> On 8/3/24 10:34 PM, Jacob Hammer wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Aug 3, 2024, at 9:56 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck 
>> <rikiheck at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 8/3/24 5:41 PM, Jacob Hammer wrote:
>> >>> I must apologize for bothering you. I actually cannot reproduce 
>> this behavior in another file, so I guess there is some corruption in 
>> this particular file. I have been using Lyx for more than a decade, 
>> and I have never experienced this problem before. I am very sorry for 
>> not checking more thoroughly before sending the email.
>> >> No need to apologize. Something weird is clearly happening here, 
>> and, honestly, I'd still like to know why that is. If you could send 
>> me the file privately, I can investigate.
>> > I think that I figured out what is going on. It has to do with the 
>> Filter on 'Outline pane/Labels and references'. The Lyx file I was 
>> working on has a lot of labels. So I used the filter on 'Outline 
>> pane/Labels and reference' to single out some of the labels. For some 
>> reason, the filter result includes the labels, but omits the 
>> references for some of the labels. If I look at the full list of 
>> labels, they all appear correctly with all their references. However, 
>> when I apply a filter, the correct labels appear, but some of them 
>> appear without their references.
>>
>> Yes, confirmed. The filter works on the text that is displayed. So if I
>> open the User Guide and the label list, and type "Safety" in the filter,
>> then I get the one label "sec:Safety-Nets", and the references to it
>> vanish. If, by contrast, I type "2.2", then the label remains, with that
>> one reference.
>>
>> I have been wondering about how the cross-references are displayed, and
>> whether "2.2", say, is really useful, rather than what we used to have,
>> which would be something like "Ref: sec:Safety-Nets".
>
> As a user I find the "2.2" very useful -- it supports the workflow of 
> printing the document, marking it up, and then editing the LyX file 
> based on the marked-up printout. The alternative is using packages 
> like showkeys so that the printed document shows the keys as well, but 
> this can be a bit of a pain (in particular you need huge margins if 
> you have long keys), so the option to have LyX display the 
> cross-reference value is very helpful.

Those will continue to be available in the tooltips. You can also 
activate "Format cross-references in the work area", and then that will 
happen.

Riki

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