A new package has just been put up at tug.ctan.org and it should soon be at your favorite mirror.
Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: philex Author's name: Peter Pagin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/philex Summary description: Provides the capacity to dynamically cross-reference to names and contents of environments. Builds on Wolfgang Sternefeld's linguex package. License type: lppl
Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- philex is a package for creating and cross-referencing named or numbered environments, such as equations, example sentences as in linguistics or philosophy, and named principles. philex offers dynamic cross-references not only the numbers of labeled environments, but also to short names of environments, and to the contents of those environment. Cross-referencing works forward as well as backward in the text. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/philex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/philex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .