unresolved cross references part II

[Fred Ridder]

In responding to Deirdre, Clint Owen wrote:
> That's about right. It's a pain in the neck, but you can't globally open
> or search the master pages.
> 
> If all or some of your chapters use the same master pages and the same
> cross-references (like to a part number on the title page), you can fix
> one of them and then import the page layouts into all the others at the
> same time.
This is part of the reason why I *strongly* prefer using system variables 
and user variables to construct headers and footers. Another reason is that
I see absolutely no benefit to having active hyperlinks in the headers and 
footers of the PDF I produce that take the reader to some strange and
non-useful location like the title page. One set of templates I once had to
work with used cross-references in the headers and footers, and I absolutely
hated it.
 
It's probably possible to make x-refs in headers and footers behave better
with some FrameScript scripting, but I just don't see the point. With the 
possible exception of "page x of y" page numbering, I haven't yet 
encountered any requirement for information in headers and footers that
I wasn't able to accomplish more directly using variables.
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