Cross-ref formats

[Kelly McDaniel]

I use plain-text body font with cross-ref color (blue). There were so
many legitimate cross-refs in a doc I inherited that the italics were
incredibly distracting. 
I changed them all...regards, Kelly "Stuck-in-the-mud" McDaniel.

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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 2:52 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Cross-ref formats


Some follow-up questions:

1. I've been looking at the Chicago Manual, 15th edition. I'd expect a
great honking treatment of this subject, but I'm not seeing it. All the
cross-reference i9nformation is presented with reference to indexes and
bibliographies. The sections referring to cross-references "in text" are
discussions of the editor's obligation to check cross-references!

Is there an exhaustive section on x-ref format, in text, that I'm
missing?

2. I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you , to discover just what a
stick-in-the-mud I really am. I thought italics were sacrosanct for
referring to the titles of separately bound publications. (Although how
purely electronic publications can be "bound" is a topic for another
day.) But .. . you've all gotten over this hurdle and use italics to
identify cross-references? Like:  "See <open italics> Pots and Pans
<close italics> on page 85," where "Pots and Pans" is a couple of
paragraphs with header in a much longer chapter of a much larger
*separately bound* publication, whether physical or digital?

Really?

I must sit down.

In that case, do you also put your italicized x-refs in a different
color, so as to distinguish them from the titles of separately bound
publications, which you might also mention in your text? 

Thanks!

--Nancy


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