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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, David Allouche wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 06:22:36PM +0100, Javier Arántegui Jiménez wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > First of all, I want to thank Joris, David and the rest of the development
> > team for the last release. For first time I have been able to export a
> > document to pdf directly. I noticed, as well, that there are less problems
> > with the floating objects. In my documents they had the annoying tendency 
> > to
> > be in the very beginning.
> >
> > But I have problems updating the buffer. I have several references to 
> > sections
> > and appendixes in one document and all I get are *. I update everything 
> > and
> > everything is OK but those references. The frustating part is that if I 
> > type
> > just one character or delete one the reference is updated. Loock for every
> > reference and update it by hand is quite slow. Any solutions?
>
> Ricardo Ferrarri has just reported an identical problem four days ago on
> this very mailing list.
>
> The problem is that your section labels are inside the section title,
> whereas they should instead be placed immediately _after_ the section
> title on the same line.
>
> Yes, this limitation sucks. This is an issue in the way automatic
> contents (like TOCs) are generated.

This is not a "limitation", since a label inside a section title
obviously does not have the same semantics. What could be done though,
is modifying the editing routine for inserting labels in such a way that
we jump out of the title when starting a label inside a section title.
If someone wants to contribute a patch...