add tab stop in a cross-reference

[obair81 at comcast.net]

Thanks to Bill and Grant for their comments.

I was able to make this work by adding a new tab stop with a leader in the bulleted paragraph format in which the link resides, and by adding a /t tab stop in the x-ref itself. I did not think that tweaking the bulleted paragraph format itself would affect the x-ref, but it did.

It took me a minute to get this right, but it does work nicely.

best,
Paul

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Bill Swallow" <techcommdood at gmail.com>
> Since char formats can be used anywhere in the document, getting a set
> distance will be difficult. But sure, you can add a slash-t ("\t") in
> there, but it's a tab and not a tab stop declaration. I do this. Of
> course I limit this xref format's use to it being the only entry in a
> paragraph, which has an actual tab stop assigned to it. So yes, you
> can likely do what you need to do provided you marry up the xref and
> the paragraph style into a combined use.
> 
> On Jan 11, 2008 12:59 PM,  <obair81 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Is it possible to put a tab stop in a cross-reference?
> >
> > For example, I want my  <$paratext>, page <$pagenum><Default ¶ Font>  x-ref to 
> have a tab stop (and leader) in front of the word "page".
> >
> > This is not my formatting preference, but a request from someone who uses our 
> docs a great deal to train others.
> 
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