[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 141398] Reduce user's work load for inserting cross-references

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141398

--- Comment #9 from Christian Lehmann <christianw_lehmann at arcor.de> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #7)
> If I understand correctly, Christian Lehmann wants the "Selection" input
> field, where user types something to filter the results, to only take
> numbers into account, not the text of the numbered paragraph? It would be
> absolutely wrong for most of the users, who may want to type the text and
> find the corresponding item, and only makes sense for users who somehow know
> all their numbers in a heavily numbered document (well, I hardly imagine
> many people who know by heart all the numbers in a document with hundreds of
> numbered paragraphs, while I easily know people who may reasonably remember
> some part of text in the item they need).

This is a misunderstanding.
1) If I want to refer to the object numbered 'X', then I type 'X' in the
selection field and I only want to see that exact paragraph which is numbered
'X', and not dozens of paragraphs which happen to contain the expression 'X'.

2) The question of how I know that it is X that I want to refer to is a
different one. If it is a heading, then my method is to look at the Navigator.
Searching for a word or string that is part of the heading would be inefficient
since that string may occur dozens of times in numbered paragraphs of all
sorts.

However, if you want to offer the user alternative ways of finding the
paragraph he wants to refer to, then we are not talking about Types of
reference targets (that is what the dialog field is called), but about search
strategies. You may then wish to offer:
a) Search by number [where 'number' means 'paragraph/heading/footnote etc.
number]
b) Search by content.

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