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diff --git a/doc/user/links.skb b/doc/user/links.skb
index ae7301c..c6e37a0 100644
--- a/doc/user/links.skb
+++ b/doc/user/links.skb
@@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ automatically sets a mark whose value is the legend of the figure.]))
;*---------------------------------------------------------------------*/
;* ref ... @label ref@ */
;*---------------------------------------------------------------------*/
-(section :title "Reference"
+(section :title "Reference" :ident "refs"
-(p [Skribe proposes only one single function for all the references.
+(p [Skribilo proposes a single function that can be used for most references.
This same ,(code "ref") function is used for introducing references to
section, to bibliographic entries, to source code line number, etc.])
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ section, to bibliographic entries, to source code line number, etc.])
(:section [The title of a ,(markup-ref "section").])
(:subsection [The title of a ,(markup-ref "subsection").])
(:subsubsection [The title of a ,(markup-ref "subsubsection").])
- (:page [A boolean enabling/disabling page reference.])
+ (:page [A boolean enabling/disabling page reference (for
+ hard copies as produced by the Lout and LaTeX engines).])
(:bib ,[A name or a list of names of
,(ref :chapter "Bibliographies" :text "bibliographic") entry.])
(:bib-table ,[The
@@ -108,8 +109,21 @@ section, to bibliographic entries, to source code line number, etc.])
a ,(tt "mark") located in the Skribe document
described by the ,(var "file") ,(sc "sui").]))
:force-args '(:url :bib :line :skribe)
- :see-also '(index))
-
+ :see-also '(index numref))
+
+(p [Sometimes, it is useful to produce phrases that refer a section by
+its number, as in ``See Section 2.3''. This is especially useful on
+printed documents, as produced by the Lout and LaTeX engines. The
+,(code "numref") markup is provided to that end:])
+
+(doc-markup 'numref
+ `((:text [Text preceding the reference number.])
+ (:ident [The identifier of the node (a chapter, section,
+ subsection, etc.) being referenced.])
+ (:page [A boolean enabling/disabling page reference (for
+ hard copies as produced by the Lout and LaTeX engines).])
+ (:separator [The separator between numbers.]))
+ :see-also '(ref))
(example-produce
(example :legend "Some references" (prgm :file "src/links1.skb"))
diff --git a/doc/user/src/links1.skb b/doc/user/src/links1.skb
index e0b393b..bfe6f86 100644
--- a/doc/user/src/links1.skb
+++ b/doc/user/src/links1.skb
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ That other one points to a well known
,(code ":text"): ,(ref :url "http://slashdot.org/").
,(linebreak)
+And one can also refer to sections by number, as in ``see ,(numref :text
+[Wonderful Section] :ident "refs")''.
+
+,(linebreak)
With more complex tricks that are explained in Section
,(ref :section "Resolve"), it is also possible use, for the text of the
reference, a container number such as chapter: