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Italic after xref is being removed

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March 9, 2022
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I have a paragraph that starts with an xref and within that same paragraph, I have some text that is tagged as italic but it is not displaying as italic. If I move the xref anyplace but at the beginning of the paragraph, the text displays as italic. Does anyone know the reason this is happening and a solution (other than rewriting the paragraph)?

Thanks!

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Correct answer leighb61493055

Is the char tag set to link.asis?

if so you could redefine the char tag to match in the template. Otherwise, modifying the EDD(s) would be a potential but harder solution. Remember to mod copies of templates and EDDs!!!

Yes, the char tag in the EDD was set to link.asis. (I inherited this EDD so I'm not sure if this was a default or created with purpose.)

I haven't tried to change the character tag yet but I did just remove the "Use character format: link.asis" from the EDD, and now it appears to work as it should. Are there any repercussions that I should keep my eye out for?

I checked xref elements in other areas (that are displayed in different font/sizes) just to make sure the xref text was following the paragraph styling as it should and it seems to be in order.

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Adobe Expert

I was able to replicate your example.

<topic id="id-att-for-topic">
	<title>Xref Test</title>
	<shortdesc>Testing whether an xref can exist as the first element
		in a para element</shortdesc>
	<prolog>
		<author>Matt Sullivan</author>
	</prolog>
	<body>
		<p>
			<xref outputclass="fm:" href="#id-att-for-topic/id-for-title">Cross-referenced Title</xref> shows
			a WBS for a project. This WBS is from the
			<i>Practice Standard for
				Work BreakdownStructures</i>, second edition.
		</p>
		<p>Text following first para</p>
		<section>
			<title id="id-for-title">Cross-referenced Title</title>
			<p>This
				is a subsection of the Xref Test topic</p>
		</section>
		<example id="id-att-for-content">Cross-referenced content</example>
	</body>
</topic>

When I xref to basic structure in the topic (see example element, then the formatting is as expected.

When I xref to a title within an section, then the formatting disappears.

Perhaps the easiest way to get around this is to conref (Insert>Conref) to the title, since it is being reused, rather than being referred to within the text.

However, it looks like the conref feature won't work on the title in this example.

Try breaking out the subsection into its own topic and either add separately to the ditamap or conref into your existing topic.

-Matt SullivanFrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

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leighb61493055Author

Inspiring

This xref is referencing the title of the figure below it. Final text will say "Exhibit 1-3 shows a WBS for a..." and the title of the in the fig below it will be " Exhibit 1-3: WBS Example". I don't think I can use a conref in this situation, right? (and we have hundreds of these in our files)

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Adobe Expert

I'd have to see the structure of the whole file, so not sure.

The topic is valid, yes?

-Matt SullivanFrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Adobe Expert

Hi Leigh,

What's your structure view look like, and is the topic valid?

-Matt

-Matt SullivanFrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Adobe Expert

Works ok for me. It works fine with default generated IDs but I've modified the IDs to make the code easier to decipher.

<shortdesc>Testing whether an xref can exist as the first element

in a para element</shortdesc>

<author>Matt Sullivan</author>

</prolog>

<body>

<xref outputclass="fm:" href="#id-att-for-topic/id-att-for-content">Cross-referenced content</xref> shows

a WBS for a project. This WBS is from the

Practice Standard for

Work BreakdownStructures, second edition.

Text following first para

<example id="id-att-for-content">Cross-referenced content</example>

</body>

</topic>

-Matt

-Matt SullivanFrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

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Winfried Reng

Adobe Expert

Hi,

In the cross-reference format you can specify a character format for the cross-reference text, eg.: <menu>.

However, you should then stop this character format at the end of your cross-reference with <Default¶Format>.

Your format would look like:

However, when you have applied a character format with italic after such a cross-reference, the italic font should be applied correctly.

Could it be that your cross-reference specifies a font which just does not have an italic font property?

Can you explain in more detail where your cross-reference and where the non-italic text is?

Does this happen, after you updated your cross-references?

Is this a non-structured document or do you use any structure? Which one?

What's your FrameMaker version (Help | About)? The current version is 16.0.4.1062.

Best regards

Winfried

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leighb61493055Author

Inspiring

This is what I have:

<xref outputclass="fm:Exhibit"
href="#topic-c5-t4-5/title-c5-t4-9" id="CJDBDEDJE9" class="- topic/xref ">Exhibit
1-3</xref> shows a WBS for a project. This WBS
is from the Practice Standard for Work Breakdown
Structures, second edition.

The xref is pointing to an exhibit just below this content. I have experienced this same behavior in other files as well.

Does this help?