General ⇒ Listing Refs for a Lable

[Wolfram Stahl]

Hey Community

I'll be working on a massively cross-linked document soon an I wonder if you know a way to list where a label or a group of labels is referenced.
(E.g. a passage in chapter 3.1 is referenced to in chapters 5.1.1, 5.2 and 6.4, then I would like a nice way to list those chapters and their titles at the end of 3.1.
Optimally I'd have ONE list for ALL labels contained in 3.1, but this is optional)

Any idea on how to accomplish this or do you know a package that does that?
Please tell me also if you understand what I want to do or if you need more than that rather vague sketch of an idea that I gave you.

Thanks!
Wolfram

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Wolfram,

welcome to the forum!

You could make index entries for each reference. Here I made a sample document showing what I mean.

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\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{showkeys}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}

\makeindex
\makeindex[name=refs,title=References,columns=1]

\let\origref\ref
\begin{document}
\renewcommand{\ref}[1]{%
   \origref{#1}%
   \index[refs]{\getrefnumber{#1}!Section \thesection}
}

\chapter{First}
A section follows.
\section{One}
\label{sec:one}
See \ref{sec:two} and \ref{eq:sample}.
\section{Another}
\label{sec:two}
See \ref{sec:one} and \ref{sec:more}.

\chapter{Second}
The second chapter.
\section{Equations}
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:sample}
\end{equation}
\section{More}
\label{sec:more}
See again \ref{sec:one}.
\printindex[refs]
\end{document}

You can see the chapter and section numbers for each reference, grouped by reference number, and the page where the \ref has been placed (in red).

list-of-references.png (6.32 KiB) Viewed 3718 times

I loaded the showkeys package in addition to show the labels in the document body.

Stefan