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Anonymous
November 11, 2013
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Preserving forced returns in a cross-reference

  • November 11, 2013
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Hi.

I have a document where I would like to cross-reference paragraphs that have forced returns in them.

Unfortunatelly the returns are lost.

Any idea on how to accomplish this?

I am using unstructured FrameMaker 10.

Thank You

Peter

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    Anonymous
    November 12, 2013

    Thank you.

    That was a lot of new information.

    I guess I have to read more about text insets, flows, reference pages etc.

    My particular case is a large grammar of a programming lanuage that is listed as a complete grammar in its own chapter.

    Fragments of that grammar is then repeated together with the description of specific language features.

    I do not believe variables is the way to go as the grammar is formatted with both paragraph formats and character formats.

    Ideally I also wish to have non-terminals cross-reference productions.

    Can you recommend any books or websites that covers stuff like this.

    The Adobe documentation mostly focuses on the Pods not on recommended use.

    /Peter

    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    November 12, 2013

    You might want to also have a look at Steve Kubis' Auto-Text tool. See: http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html

    This allows you to set up re-usable content snippets that are fully formatted.

    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Community Expert
    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 11, 2013

    Use Text Insets instead of xrefs

    Bob_Niland
    Community Expert
    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 11, 2013

    > Use Text Insets instead of xrefs

    Can a document text inset from itself (assuming that's the requirement here)?

    If so, wouldn't the target text need to be in a unique Flow?

    I'm thinkin' it might be easier to craft the original text as a variable, including hard returns ( \r ) as needed, then just use the var everywhere needed.

    Jeff_Coatsworth
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    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 11, 2013

    That would probably be even easier ;>)

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