spot cross-reference

I use spot xrefs extensively. Although you can easily generate a reference to the location (as in "See the screen capture on page <$pagenum>) there seems to be no way to leverage the markertext content itself.

I agree with Arnis that this is a long-standing need, and one that should be considered by Adobe for development.

A side-note: Conversion of Fm to Rh may require mapping these xrefs to a text string instead of [Source] or various building blocks.

> I tried <$paratext>, but that was a bit too generous :-}

... only for excessive values of paragraph.

By using run-ins, a paragraph could be a single letter if necessary.

If I had but a small number of such spotrefs to do, I'd use dedicated Xref formats (where the format def is just the desired string). This is described in the referenced thread.

Hi Niels,

That specific request, a generic <$markertext> building block, has been on the wishlists for a very long time...

The possible workarounds are listed in the thread that Error points to.

> ... spot cross-reference ...

Can you define that?

Is this thread about that?

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3498342#3498342