Is there an easier way to crossreference a figure?
Posted: Sat May 16, 2020 11:55 am
I'm fairly new to Mellel, so bear with me...
I'm writing technical documents and often refer to figure captions from the text. Every time I want to add something like "...see figure N..." where "N" is a crossreference to a figure caption, I have to do:
Insert -> cross reference -> insert reference...
then in the dialog box:
- select auto-titles
- find the caption (would be nice to have the captions in their own list, btw, since they can be hard to locate)
- delete the "Page#" element in the bottom box
- select "Auto-title current level number" in the Elements dropdown
- click "OK"
I'm thinking there must be an easier way that I've missed. Some way of storing this setup somehow.
If not, I'll try to fix up a macro in KeyboardMaestro, but thought I'd ask here first.
I'm writing technical documents and often refer to figure captions from the text. Every time I want to add something like "...see figure N..." where "N" is a crossreference to a figure caption, I have to do:
Insert -> cross reference -> insert reference...
then in the dialog box:
- select auto-titles
- find the caption (would be nice to have the captions in their own list, btw, since they can be hard to locate)
- delete the "Page#" element in the bottom box
- select "Auto-title current level number" in the Elements dropdown
- click "OK"
I'm thinking there must be an easier way that I've missed. Some way of storing this setup somehow.
If not, I'll try to fix up a macro in KeyboardMaestro, but thought I'd ask here first.