Re: Marking a textfragment for later reference

[Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert@gmail.com>]

On 7 aug. 2012,  Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>
wrote
> 
> On Tue 07 Aug 2012, Robert Blackstone wrote:
> 
>> Here follows my minimal example. I reasoned that the identifier [topica] might act as a label, or an anchor, or whatever the correct ConTeXt name is, for a reference.
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> \definedelimitedtext[topica]
>> \setupdelimitedtext[topica][left=,right=] %maybe superfluous? I do not need a layout different from the rest of the text.
>> \starttext
>> 
>> Some text.
>> 
>> \starttopica
>> Some text to explain a certain topic, called topica.
>> \stoptopica
>> 
>> Some more text about topica. (See discussion on \at{page}[topica])
>> 
>> \stoptext
>> 
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> To avoid any misunderstanding: this is no longer a problem since I have been given excellent advice. But it intrigues me. Why can some identifiers, for example of figures, be used for internal references and others not?
> 
> In this case, I'd say it's because you're defining a delimited text
> style which can be used in multiple places. Your document could have
> five hundred \starttopica...\stoptopica blocks on different pages.
> A figure identifier, on the other hand, is meant to be unique.
> 
> Pont
Hi Pont,
Thanks for your comment. I realized this. There would of course be only one "\starttopica...\stoptopica block" in my text. If I would like to use delimited texts in this manner for several different topics, I would simply give them different names. Each topic its own name, like [topicb], [topicc], etc. Like you would do if you wanted to use slightly different types of blockquote in your document.
So my question: "Why can some identifiers, for example of figures, be used for internal references and others not?" remains unanswered.
Best regards,
Robert

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