{cross-referencing} is about making connections from a point in a document to related information elsewhere, usually within the same document. Standard commands are \label and \ref. For questions about citing or bibliographies, use {bibliographies} instead.
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Starting a PhD; Any guides to setting up a 'system'?
I'm starting a PhD and am being overwhelmed with the different possible ways people do things, and how they very rarely mix.
I'm (obviously) sold on TeXing it, and have a ViM background I intend on ...
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Cross-reference packages: which to use, which conflict?
Inspired by my earlier question Theorem packages: which to use, which conflict?, here is another similar question.
There are many different packages for making cross references. Among them hyperref, ...
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How do I number equations only if they are referred to in the text?
I have a paper where all equations are numbered, but I want to number equations only if they are actually referred to in the .tex file using \ref{}. How can I make that happen? Alternatively, how can ...
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subcaption vs. subfig: Best package for referencing a subfigure
On this question a comment by Martin H says, that one should forget about the subfigure and subfig packages and use subcaption. As subfig replaces subfigure, no argument there.
I am currently using ...
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How do I repeat a theorem number?
Often in my papers I want to mention theorems in the introduction that are introduced in more detail and proved in a later section.
I'd like to include the statement of these theorems twice over, ...
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How can I get LaTeX to warn about unreferenced figures?
When writing documents, I consider it to be necessary that all figures and tables are referenced (\ref) in the text, whether or not I've remembered to \label them. LaTeX does not currently warn if a ...
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Difference between ref, varioref and cleveref. Decision for a thesis
How can one make a quick decision what the best "ref" for a thesis in pdflatex with hyperref is?
After a few hours reading I do not know more than
ref is used by everyone who does not know about ...
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Why does an environment's label have to appear after the caption?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\begin{document}
\setcounter{section}{54}
\section{A section with no label}
\begin{algorithm}
\label{myalg}
\caption{An algorithm with the label ...
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Document requiring infinitely many compiler passes?
It is an unfortunate reality that one must compile a LaTeX file several times in order to get all labels and citations correct. As far as I know, one should go on compiling as long as TeX warns that ...
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Get the title instead of the number of a referenced chapter/section?
In my document I am referencing a section, e.g.
\section{My Section}\label{test}
Also see section\ref{test}
This gives me, e.g.
Also see section 1
but what I want is:
Also see section My ...
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How to use \pageref{foo} as a number?
What I want to do is to show a "progress bar" in the header to show how far you are in the document, by making a rule with width pagenumber divided by total pages times the paper width.
This is what ...
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\ref Chapter Name in LaTeX [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Get the title instead of number of a referenced chapter?
Is it possible to use \ref{chap:conclusion} to refer to the actual name of the chapter instead of the chapter ...
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Does hyperref work between two files?
Can I create a link from one file into another one. So that when the resulting pdf files are in the same directory the link takes me from one to the other? Does another package do that?
Added on ...
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Relative chapter references
(A follow-up of sorts on Variable chapter references, as per @werner 's suggestion)
This is somewhere in between a request for comments and an actual question (as well as a summary of my experiences ...
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How to make clickable links and cross-references in pdfs produced by LaTeX?
How can I make things link url references, my index, table of contents, and cross references clickable links in documents produced by LaTeX? I generally use pdflatex to produce my documents.
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Impact of hyperref, when varioref and cleveref are used
I think I may have found a bug in either hyperref, cleverefoder varioref but can't determine the details any further. If do not load hyperref in the following example, the result is fine.
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Understanding how references and labels work
I'm trying to understand why I cannot effectively reference figures or equations that I have defined with labels.
For example:
\begin{figure}
\label{fig:area_Treasuries}
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Referencing to “above” or “below”?
I would like to know if it is good practice, and if so how it can be achieved, to make references like: "as mentioned above...". Or am I going to far and should I just type the word?
I've read ...
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Label equation with a symbol
I would like to label an equation with an arbitrary symbol, rather than a number, or letter. Is this possible?
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How exactly does \def\p@figure{Figure~} work?
I took this line from my thesis style and added it into my document (preceded by \makeatletter) and what it does that whenever I used \ref{figureid} instead of putting just the figure number, it puts ...
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Why should I put a ~ before \ref or \cite?
My question is in the title of this post, but extends to other referencing commands like \eqref, \citep, \citet (and the like) as well.
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Stable alternative to \thepage
As I read and found out the command \thepage doesn't always output the correct page number.
The proposed alternative is to use \pageref{here}\label{here}. But this seems too unhandy, because I have ...
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Replace unknown reference (?) with the tag from \ref or \cite
While working on a document, it would be helpful if instead of a ? for unresolved references or citations the tag used in the \ref{thisthings} or \cite{Bloke1978} could appear instead.
Is there a ...
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Label and caption without float
I’d like to have an environment that works much like a float, except that it doesn’t float.
That is, in fact, I’d like to be able to define an environment that has a label and a caption.
I ...
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Inserting/Numbering/Labelling/Referencing several times the same equation written in various form
I'm looking for an automatic way in LaTeX to number a same equation that would be inserted several times (under different forms for instance). The output would look something like:
some text
x-y=0 ...
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Selectively turn off hyperref links
I'm writing a document which includes a list of URLs that I want to be clickable, so I'm using hyperref to achieve this. This has the awkward side effect that my equation numbers, some of which I ...
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Where will a theorem be used?
I have once seen a book (Graph Theory by Reinhard Diestel) where the author flags his theorems by adding on the left/right of the page the reference number of later theorems where said theorem will be ...
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What is the difference in citing/referencing with or without tilde?
I've seen examples referencing a table as follows:
Table~\ref{table:overview} shows an overview of all the elements.
What is the use of the tilde in front of \ref or \cite and when do you have to ...
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Reference different places to the same footnote
For example, I want to make footnotes both at Sentence 1 and Sentence 2 (which are on the same page) to the same footnote. Wikipedia's "References" have this effect.
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How to display the same text in various parts of the document?
In a long, long, long writing. I have a piece of text that repeats in several places/sections/chapters. When I'm editing, I change 2 or 3 words in that piece of text. The changes have to be applied to ...
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Is there a way to force LaTeX to issue a warning if a figure is never referenced? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I get LaTeX to warn about unreferenced figures?
In my document I have several figures, most of which I created references for (using \ref{}) immediately after I ...
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Multiple references with \autoref
I am currently using the \autoref command from the hyperref package to refer to my theorems etc. However, I want to be able to (easily) refer to two or more theorems/lemmas/..., e.g. by calling ...
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Automatically numbering constants
I would like to somehow use LaTeX to automatically number constants.
Some background
As a mathematician, in my daily work there are a lot of throw-away constants which are not extremely important ...
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A better way to reference theorem-like environments?
I know how to use \label and \ref to get a reference to a result(or whatever else really) that I have made previously in the document. But this is tedious and requires me to create a label name every ...
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How to reference the page of a figure?
Is it possible to make a reference to the page where a figure is rendered?
I would like to write something like
see figure~\ref{figure-xyz} on page NN
where NN will automatically be maintained by ...
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How to reference \paragraph?
It is well-known that \section environment may be assigned a label \label{refname} and then the refname may be used in order to reference this section:
\section{My nice section}
...
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Suppress equation number when not refered to
Is is possible to use only equation or align environments without the * and then automatically suppress the equation number if there is nothing refering to that equation? It would make the LaTeX-life ...
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Changing the apperance of equation numbers with amsmath
For equations in my document, I use the facilities of the amsmath package. In order to make the equation numbers more eye-catching, I want them to be in boldface and a little bit indented to the ...
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Greatest hits? Can I find the most \ref'd part of my document?
I now have a 200 page document and have used \ref and \label very frequently.
I was wondering if it is possible to use LaTeX to create a table at the start of the document with the "top ten" most ...
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What are the valid names as labels?
What are the valid characters to use in labels? I thought that only alphabetic characters were valid, but I tested ' and ! and they work. What are the restrictions to these names?
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Warning: There were multiply-defined labels
I got a "LaTeX Warning: There were multiply-defined labels", and I know what it means but my document is pretty big and it has various files. So, how can I find the multiply-defined label?
I am ...
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How to get more complete references
Sometimes when I work I write something like
\begin{proposition} \label{my new result}
...
\end{proposition}
...
blah blah in Proposition \ref{my new result} blah...
but then I realize that the ...
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Is there any difference between nesting \label in \caption and putting \label outside \caption?
Is there any difference in behavior between the following coding styles?
Coding style A: \caption does not enclose \label.
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics{cat.eps}
\caption{This is a cat.}
...
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Custom equations' names
Do you know ho can i call a reference to an equation using \ref or \eqref and obtain (name of the equation) instead of the standard counter?
Thanks!
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Usage of table/figures shown in caption
Is there a way to add the usage of a table/reference in the caption of the reference/table in LaTeX?
For example:
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
\textbf{Name} & \textbf{Description} ...
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How does one set custom labels for description lists?
Every now and then I use the description list environment
\begin{description}
\item[foo] foo is good
\item[bar] bar is bad
\end{description}
to create lists with non-numerical labels. ...
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Creating a “\label” that, if necessary, spans over several pages
What I want to do is the following:
I want to refer to an earlier block of text. I could do this by using the \label and the \ref commands like so:
\label{x} Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur ...
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Testing for current page
Is there a way of testing if a \pageref is the current page? For example, in the next code:
\newcommand\figureref[1]{%
Figure~\ref{#1} (p.~\pageref{#1})
}
I would like to eliminate the ...
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Graph of dependencies from LaTeX file
This is inspired by the MO question here.
Suppose I'm writing a math paper, with theorem and proofs, etc. At the end of writing, I want to design a graph of dependencies, that is, a graph containing ...
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Automatically inserting “Section”, “Subsection”, etc
Is there a package that automatically inserts the ToC level of the reference I inserted?
Section 1.1
\label{a}
Subsection 1.1.1
\label{b}
Subsection 1.1.2
\label{c}
So that the text:
Blah ...
