On Mon, 09 May 2005 at 22:40:03+0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
say that I have four tables with lables tab:A ... tab:D. Now, I would like to say something like \in{Tables}[tab:A,tab:B,tab:C,tab:D] and the output should be "Tables 2, 7-9".
\in{Tables}[tab:A], \in[tab:B]--\in[tab:D]
Of course, this solution works, but it can easily break. So there is no automatic sorting and combining? If I don't know that table B--D have continuous numbers, or if this changes in the course of writing, those references will become wrong.
implementing this is not complex, but the tricky part is in the prefixes (1.4, 2.5)
Not complex... ;-) I admit that I didn't think of prefixes since I never used them so far. Anyway, I think this would be a very useful feature, even if some restrictions concerning prefixes had to be accepted. If you have the opportunity to implement it sometime - great. -- Eckhart