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From: jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George J. Jefferson)
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Subject: Re: Technical Word Processing
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Date: 31 May 90 00:18:51 GMT
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From the 'want list'

>	- Automatic numbering of sections, lists, and figures.  Word
>understands headings, but it doesn't know how to automatically
>renumber them.  Idealiner numbers and renumbers as you add and move
>section headers, so I would think that it would simple to do.  Also,
>Word doesn't seem to understand anything about figures.  I hate to
>think of going through and numbering figures by hand.
>
>	- References to other parts of the document.  Things like "see
>section 3.2 for further information" and "as shown in figure 3 on page 24."
>Again, I don't want to have to do all this numbering by hand --- that's what
>computers are for.

MSWord's biggest shortcoming in my opinion.

A better-than-by-hand method of numbering equations, figures, sections,
whatever involves using the 'mail merge' feature.  Give each item to be
numbered a unique name enclosed in the funny brackets that the merge
function recognises.

Example
                     y = y                                 (<<eq1>>)

as you can see from equation <<eq1>> etc etc ..
 
That's the easy part.  Now you need to construct a list of your reference
names and the corresponding numbers like this

eq1,eq2,eq3,section1,section2,fig1
1.1,1.2,1.3,1,2,1

Then mail merge - and all of the proper substitutions are done. I'll assume
that anybody still interested can look up how to use the 
mail merge as well as I  could explain it.  Constructing the list of
references may be more or less difficult than numbering the paper
by hand would have been.

This may sound contrived (it is) but it is sometimes better than the
old fasioned way if you have lots of references.

George Jefferson    jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu   george@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu