Cross References:using text that is not that linked to
Peter Gold
peter at knowhowpro.com
Tue Feb 19 10:07:34 PST 2008
Hi, Carrie and Steve:
To extend Steve's suggestion a bit:
If you always want to ignore the "lead in" word or phrase, whatever it
may be, in the cross-reference - sometimes "displaying the ",
sometimes "defining an ", sometimes "brewing with a ", etc - consider
constructing these headings with two paragraph formats. Define a
run-in paragraph format for the introductory word or phrase, and an
in-column (normal) paragraph format for the following part. In other
words, construct the headings of several paragraphs as building
blocks, so you can cross-reference to each one individually.
Example:
Run-in paragraph format "part1intro": The wonderful world of the
Run-in paragraph format "part2topicname" xy statistics
Run-in paragraph format "itemname" screen
In-column paragraph format "bodyafterhead": is better than sliced
bread. Just try these features, blah blah
The <$paratext> building block of a cross-reference that points to a
part2topicname paragraph retrieves "xy statistics", in the above
example.
With care, you can a number of consecutive run-in paragraphs for this
kind of pin-point cross-reference retrieval.
OK?
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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Peter Gold
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On Feb 19, 2008 11:38 AM, Stuart Rogers <srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com> wrote:
> Carrie Baker wrote:
> > Frame 7.2
> > I am documenting an application with all sorts of reports that can be
> > generated and displayed by selecting the appropriate screen in a
> > dialog box.
> > Each sort of report is described in the documentation with a heading
> > 2 that used to say "The xy Statistics screen" and explains what you do
> > with it and available options, explains the meaning of the parameters
> > they see etc.
> > Now I would like to call all of the headings "Displaying Xy
> > Statistics", Displaying z statistics etc.
> > The FrameMaker problem I am encountering is that originally at the
> > beginning of the section someone had written, "the following screens
> > are available and had a list of cross references to all of the titles
> > which were each called xy screen etc."
> > Now I have changed the title the cross reference to these headings
> > will say, the following statistics can be displayed, and say for each
> > cross reference "Displaying xy statistics etc."
> > I like this list of cross reference as when I convert the files to
> > help, they are my hyperlinks, as well as the fact that we distribute
> > the documentation as PDFs.
> > The question is:
> > Can I create a cross reference to somewhere, when the text that
> > appears in the cross reference is something that I type in, and not
> > the text that appears in Heading 2 (i.e. will say xy statistics, even
> > though the header it jumps to is called Displaying xy statistics)?
> > thanks
>
>
> I'm not entirely confident I understand your question, but I'll have a
> go at it...
>
> You have a lot of headings of the pattern "Displaying xy statistics" and
> you want cross references of the pattern "xy statistics". Yes? You
> could change the headings to have an autonumber of "Displaying " and in
> your cross-ref format, use the <$paratext> building block. Elsewhere if
> you want the full heading referenced, use <$paranum><$paratext>.
>
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