Font and color in xrefs: strange problem

[Lynne A. Price]

At 01:47 AM 1/11/2008, Steve Rickaby wrote:
>Xrefs are picking up font and/or color information from the xref target - 
>or somewhere - rather than from the underlying text. If I manually zap 
>them with 'default para font', all is well until the document is opened 
>again, the xrefs are updated, and some (not all!) of them assume the wrong 
>font/color again.
>
>The xrefs are defined in the EDD as follows:

...

>I seem to be able to fix this by including '<Default ¶ Font>' in the 
>relevant cross-reference format, but should I have to? Is this intended 
>behavior?

Steve,
   Since I don't have your document, I can only guess. However, I suspect 
that the behavior you observe really is independent of the fact that the 
document is structured. When a cross-reference format includes text from 
the source, FrameMaker preserves font changes that were made by applying 
formats from the character catalog, but not those that were done by 
character overrides to the default paragraph font. Thus, if your EDD simply 
sets font properties for some text range elements but specifies character 
format tags for others, cross-references will not preserve the font changes 
for the former, but will for the latter.
   Does that explain the differences you are seeing?
         --Lynne



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