Missing Features: GOOD Cross-referencing System.

Craig P. Earls (cpearls@mit.edu)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 07:08:01 -0400 (EDT)


One of the features I find lacking (or impossibly difficult to deal with)
in MS Word is the lack of a convenient and flexible cross-referencing
system ala LaTeX. To do this right requires a small departure from
WYSIWYG, but can really make the difference when dealing with large
structured documents <insert all LaTeX propaganda here/>

What I would like to see is a way to deal with referencing logical section
numbers/titles, figure numbers, table numbers, etc. as well as the ability
to add custom counters for things we don't know about yet (Maybe someone
wants to keep a separate list of code fragments or something). The
important things is that it should very VERY easy to get to, if it can be
done with Word without obscenely fancy footwork, I have never been able to
figure it out.

My suspicion is that this needs to be a fairly deep design issue, is it
too late, or not of interest to anyone else?

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Craig P Earls, LT U.S. Navy        		          cpearls@mit.edu
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