[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#197045: lyx-common: Text labels should be visible

[Rob Weir]

severity 197045 wishlist
reassign 197045 lyx
tags 197045 upstream
thanks

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:35:42AM -0700, change at nas.com said
> Thanks for maintaining Debian's Lyx package.
> 
> I like it and use it.
> 
> Please enhance Lyx so that users can define a visible tag that appears in
> cross references to labels of standard text.
> 
> For example, say you want to have a cross reference to some standard text 
> in another part of a lyx document. When creating the "label", it should 
> be possible to specify text that will appear in the cross reference.
> 
> The text that appears might be something like "instructions", "Table of data" 
> or "Details".
> 
> Here's some pseudo code to better explain my idea:
> 
>        Refer to \cross_reference(label(1)) for detailed instructions.
> 
>        \label("Here are the instructions")
> 
>        Step 1.
>        Step 2.
>        Step 3.
> 
> I hope that makes sense.

Sounds reasonable for upstream to do.

-rob
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