Cross referencing between documents

[acebone]

I am doing a book that contains a series of exercises.

I am using a masterdoc and several subdocs.

In order for the reader to track his/her progress I supply some 'exercise log tables' where the reader can mark down how far (s)he has gotten with any particular exercise.

I'd like the log-tables to be collected in the end of the document OR in another document that can be printed seperately.

Example:

The subdoc may look like this:


2.3.1 Exercise for doing some stuff
When you do stuff you start off by .... etc

2.3.2 Exercise for doing some other stuff
When yo do some other stuff you must remember to.... etc

Now I'd like to have an appendix called 'Appendix 1: Exercise Logtables' That might look similar to this:


2.3.1 Exercise for doing some stuff
HERE IS A TABLE FOR THE READER TO PUT CHECKMARKS IN

2.3.2 Exercise for doing some other stuff
HERE IS A TABLE FOR THE READER TO PUT CHECKMARKS IN

I'd like the headings in the appendix to be same paragraph style as the headings in the subdoc, or at least look similar, AND it is emperative that the appendix-heading has the exact same wording and numbering as the subdoc heading.

In other words, when for some reason

2.3.1 Exercise for doing some stuff

in the subdoc changes to:


35.17.3 Exercise for doing some basic stuff

The corresponding log-table heading in the appendix should automatically change too.

My first thought was to create an entirely seperate document where I create references to the Masterdoc. But I can't seem to reference to an outside document.

Another idea would be to make the appendix a subdoc itself, but how do I get the contents of the appendix-headings to follow the contents (and numbering) of the 'real' headings ?

[acebone]

Please do not waste any time answering this question - I think I got it... Explanation will follow as soon as I know this works and as soon I get some time - I have to go now

Sorry for any inconvinience....

[acebone]

OK - here is the very short 'howto' insert references from subdocs into a masterdoc. It's so simple that I am almost ashamed that I went ahead and posted the question:

In each subdoc you create references as needed (or 'set a reference' to keep the terminology).

In the MasterDoc these references will be available, provided you have 'updated all links'. Add a text-entry to the end of your masterdoc (or where ever you fancy) and you can now chose to insert refs as 'page' = the pagenumber, 'chapter'=the chapternumber and 'reference'=the actual text of the heading (or whatever you are referencing).

IF you set the references to numbered headings - be sure to remove the number in the reference name - the number is static (in the ref. name - not when you insert the ref later) and since you are working on subdocs you'll have a lot of wrong numbers in your masterdoc reference list