Global reclassification of index markers to cross-reference markers

[mandrill22]

Is this possible? if so, how?

[Bob_Niland · Accepted solution]

Save .fm as MIF.

Open MIF with text editor.

Globally change all:

<MTypeName `Index'>

to:

<MTypeName `Cross-Ref'>

Save MIF. Re-open in Frame.

This might even work, but I've never tried it. It appears that an actual cross-references (<Xref tags in the MIF) do not declare the Marker type, so they may be automagically updated.

The usual problem is that you're happily tagging through the text for Indexing, and accidently select an existing Marker of some other type. This silently resets the Special > Marker > Marker Type: from [Index] to [SomethingElse], for the next and all following new Markers.

I normally fix that by going back to the last correct Index marker, then searching for Markers of type SomethingElse, and fixing them one at a time.

[mandrill22]

Thanks very much!  That does work, but it creates a different problem: 10% of my anchored frames (containing graphics) pop out of the text frames and go into the next available column. Oh well, can't avoid doing some more work to fix that.