Re: global cross file refs

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:25 PM 10/10/00 +0200, Berend de Boer wrote:
>Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> the next release will have an option \setupreferencing[global=yes] which
>> permits you to omit the somefile:: prefix, but of course at the cost of
>> conflicting refs in multiple loaded files. Nevertheless, sometimes this
>> feature canbe handy.
>
>I've used \useexternaldocument heavily, so this is handy.
>
>Is it possible to limit what is global? I.e. I seldom need figures or
>chapters, but often I refer to class definitions, or data models. So a
>kind of selective global, perhaps based on prefix or something like
>that.

Local and prefixed things have a higher priority anyway. I will implement a
more advanced prefix mechanism [nested] some day soon, since in etex the
penalty is not that high as in normal tex. Btw, if you say
\setuphead[chapter][prefix=+] you get auto prefixing, and when you say
\chapter[someref]{...} the someref becomes the prefix, which can safe you
some troubles. 

Hans 
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