[Docutils-users] counters (tables and figures)

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

I'm working on a longer document,
and being able to refer to figures
and tables by automatically generated
counter value would be very useful.

I know this request has come up before.
Was exploring it rejected, or is it
under consideration?  Where do things
stand?

Consider figures.
I would imagine some thing like the following.
Figures would have an associated counter.
A figure would have a "label" (or whatever) option.
If the "label" option is used,
a substitution definition would be automatically generated
using the counter.  The user could then refer to, e.g.,

	Figure |myfiglabel|

in order to produce an appropriately numbered figure
reference in the text.  (This seems quite reader friendly.)

Alan Isaac