On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 14:22:32 +0200 Robert Blackstone wrote:

Hi all, I would like to get some advice concerning a problem, or rather a nuisance, with internal references. I am making a longish document with several chapters, all of which are separate .tex-files to be input into the main file, which contains all setups and the skeleton of the document. There are a number of cross references between elements that sit in different files. With some simple test files I checked that this worked and that I use the proper commands. However, with the real files it does not work, that is, not immediately. Even after 4 or 5 runs I still get ?? instead of page numbers, and then suddenly things are OK. I have no idea what happened between failure and success and I have no idea what I have to do to get the proper result immediately. It is a nuisance because I cannot be sure the thing worked till I have checked the entire output after each run, which is rather time consuming. I’m using the latest version of TeXShop with the minimals of july 20, but older versions show the same symptoms. Thanks for any advice.

Robert Blackstone

Difficult to analyze, of course, but one thing that occurred to me: are you using a proper project structure, with the chapters as components, as described in chapter 2.3 of the manual, or just using \input for the chapters? Right now, I'm editing a book (~ 300 pages) with cross-references between chapters, and I don't see any of the problems you describe. Btw, the version of TeXshop is irrelevant to the problem, but you may want to update your minimals. Thomas