Re: automatic numbering and referencing
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- Subject: [mg12788] Re: automatic numbering and referencing
- From: "-don." <dexter at csd.uwm.edu>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 04:05:23 -0400
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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I've received responses to the below post which point me to a very good tutorial at http://www.wolfram.com/~paulh/Mathematica/Notebooks Therein, one may learn how to perform automatic numbering/referencing with a few mouse clicks and a bit o' typing.... while this is indeed usefull, and perhaps the only way to solve the problem, it seems needlessly cumbersome. A bit more clearly,... the tutorial noted above has you create an equation and set the CellTag to be "Pythagorian Theorem" and then create a reference to it with CounterBox[NumberedEquation, "Pythagorian Theorem"]. what would be very desireable is to be able to simply "link" the reference to the referenced equation without specifying the string "Pythagorian Theorem". what is desired is to be able to assign a (perhaps arbitrary) CellTag to any numbered quantity via the Style Sheet (or via a button click) and then obtain this CellTag and paste it into a CounterBox[type, CellTag] via a palette click. i'm aware that this may involve fairly complex FrontEnd programming, but think of how cool it would be to be able to perform automatic referencing with a mouse click... you don't want to give a fixed string name to every numbered equation you're likely to use later on, especially if your paper is of the sort where every equation is numbered and there's lots of lines like "inserting (25) into (14) and differentiating as in (8), we obtain..." Who wants to name each of those equations independantly? i suspect i haven't described this at all well. if that's the case, send me email and i'll try to be more clear. responses in the form of answers, references, or further questions greatly appreciated.... either to this newsgroup or to dexter at csd.uwm.edu. regards, and thanx -don. -don. <dexter at csd.uwm.edu> wrote in article <6l8102$mr9 at smc.vnet.net>... [...] > now that i'm able to number sections, chapters, equations, etc. w/ ease, > the next > problem to arise is the ability to reference that number elsewhere in > the text. > (e.g. "we see from equation (12) that..."). this needs to be done in > such a way that > if an equation is inserted before the one being referenced, so that the > referenced > equation becomes number (13), then the reference to it will also change. > > in the above mentioned web site, [(http://www.coloradokidd.com/notebooks/index.html)] > >he states this can be accomplished by > the ambitious by using the functions CounterLabel and CounterReference > which he says "don't quite work yet". There is no reference to these > in any documentation. > > anyone here know how to accomplish this task -- with or without the > above functions? > > responses either here or to dexter at csd.uwm.edu mucho appreciated. > > -don. > >