From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
To: Robert Zydenbos <context@zydenbos.net>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: cross references to chapters in a book
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 11:05:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41a84ed7-01df-f3ea-4bcb-56b12c6680e6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1F5AD2C2-7868-4BE0-B9C8-3B9999C2E661@zydenbos.net>
Robert Zydenbos schrieb am 22.02.19 um 22:13:
> Still nicer would be the following, but I do not know whether this is technically possible –
>
> I have the following text:
>
> % start of example: in chapter 4, pp. 38, I have
> \subject [wild-stuff]{Wild stuff}
> Now comes a lot of weird stuff which I want to refer to later.
> …
> % end of stuff in one chapter
>
> % in another chapter:
> As we already saw in \in{chapter}[wild-stuff], on p.~\at[wild-stuff]
> % that was in the other chapter
> % end of example
>
> and the result would be: “As we already saw in chapter 4, on p.~38”…
>
> Can such a thing be done?
Can’t you just add a reference to the chapter title and refer to it
instead of the the subject.
When you goal is to show the value of the chapter for the current
subject you should switch to MkIV where this can be done (although we
have to cheat to because we have to create numbered subject’s and hide
the counter).
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-22 16:14 Robert Zydenbos
2019-02-22 19:47 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2019-02-22 20:08 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2019-02-22 21:04 ` Robert Zydenbos
2019-02-22 21:13 ` Robert Zydenbos
2019-02-23 10:05 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2019-02-23 9:51 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2019-02-26 6:21 ` Pablo Rodriguez
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