General ⇒ Cross-references Spanning Various Pages

[AleCes]

Hello everybody, I have footnotes repeatedly cross-referencing to a portion of text spanning various pages. Is it possible to automatize the process so that I get page numbers hinting to the portion of text at issue?

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\documentclass{book}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Foreword}
% Portion of text at issue begins here

This is the first page of the foreword

\clearpage

This is the second page of the foreword

% Portion ends here

\chapter{Epilogue}

This is the epilogue\footnote{See pages %Insert here command which spawns page numbers
}

\end{document}

[Johannes_B]

You can use label and ref for that. But since this is really really basic stuff, i am not sure i understand the problem at hand correctly.

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Foreword}
		% Portion of text at issue begins here
\label{start}
\blindtext[9]
\label{end}

\chapter{Epilogue}
This is the epilogue\footnote{See
	pages \pageref{start} to \pageref{end}}

\end{document}

[AleCes]

Thanks Johannes_B, it works wonderfully. If you know a more elegant way to achieve the same result, please let me know, but as far as I'm concerned I'm satisfied with your hint.

Thanks!

[Johannes_B]

Package varioref might be worth a look

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\documentclass{report}%JB just for the example
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{varioref}
\usepackage{nameref}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Foreword}
\label{start}
\blindtext[9]
\label{end}

\chapter{Epilogue}
This is the epilogue See pages \pageref{start} to \pageref{end}

You can find the foreword on \vpagerefrange{start}{end}


See the section on \nameref{chap:sugarSpice} 
\vpagerefrange{singlepagestart}{singlepageend}.

\chapter{Sugar and Spice}
\label{chap:sugarSpice}
\label{singlepagestart}
\blindtext%[7]%JB: not any more on one page, try it out
\label{singlepageend}

See the section on \nameref{chap:sugarSpice} 
\vpagerefrange{singlepagestart}{singlepageend}.
\clearpage
See the section on \nameref{chap:sugarSpice} 
\vpagerefrange{singlepagestart}{singlepageend}.
\end{document}