Am 2019-02-22 um 20:47 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster :

Robert Zydenbos schrieb am 22.02.19 um 17:14:

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Dear wizards of ConTeXt, In the final stage of completing a book project, I was wondering how to automatize cross references to chapters. I’ve already figured out how to refer to pages (using “\at[REFERENCE]”), but how is this done with chapters? I’m apparently too simple-minded to understand the manual (and I don’t understand the differences between \reference, \textreference, \in, \about).

When you use \startchapter:

\starttext

\startchapter[title={Knuth},reference={sec:knuth}]

\samplefile{knuth}

See \in{chapter}[sec:zapf] at \at{page}[sec:zapf].

\stopchapter

\startchapter[title={Zapf},reference={sec:zapf}]

\samplefile{zapf}

See \in{chapter}[sec:knuth] at \at{page}[sec:knuth].

\stopchapter

\stoptext

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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? Robert

On 22. Feb 2019, at 22:04, Robert Zydenbos wrote:

Hmm… although I got your example to work after some tweaking (changing \samplefile to {input and placing knuth.tex and zapf.tex in the same folder as the test file), I could not reproduce this with my book. I want to get "chapter 4" but keep getting "chapter 4.0".

Is this because I am using MkII with XeTeX?

Robert

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On 22. Feb 2019, at 20:47, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Robert Zydenbos schrieb am 22.02.19 um 17:14:

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Dear wizards of ConTeXt, In the final stage of completing a book project, I was wondering how to automatize cross references to chapters. I’ve already figured out how to refer to pages (using “\at[REFERENCE]”), but how is this done with chapters? I’m apparently too simple-minded to understand the manual (and I don’t understand the differences between \reference, \textreference, \in, \about).

When you use \chapter:

\starttext

\chapter[sec:knuth]{Knuth}

\samplefile{knuth}

See \in{chapter}[sec:zapf] at \at{page}[sec:zapf].

\chapter[sec:zapf]{Zapf}

\samplefile{zapf}

See \in{chapter}[sec:knuth] at \at{page}[sec:knuth].

\stoptext

Robert Zydenbos schrieb am 22.02.19 um 22:04:

Hmm… although I got your example to work after some tweaking (changing \samplefile to {input and placing knuth.tex and zapf.tex in the same folder as the test file), I could not reproduce this with my book. I want to get "chapter 4" but keep getting "chapter 4.0".

You have to create a minimal working example for this because I can’t tell why you get this output.

Is this because I am using MkII with XeTeX?

Is there a reason why you stick with MkII or XeTeX. Wolfgang