Small caps in the middle of a cross reference

[Jenny Greenleaf]

Thank you. 

I was really getting confused because, as it turned out, I had several of these, and most of them were behaving properly.

I looked at the headings, and sure enough, the appropriate terms were in small caps and always had been. I re-applied the cross-reference and that seems to have fixed it. 

Jenny

On Jan 26, 2010, at 3:40 PM, David Spreadbury wrote:

> 1. Create a character tag call SmCaps.
> 2. In the heading that will be the cross-reference destination, apply the
> SmCaps char tag to the word or words you want to appear as SmCaps. (I use
> HTML-like tags in the below example to represent wrapping SmCaps around
> specific word(s) in the Chapter Titles.)
> 
> "Chapter 2, Get started with <SmCaps>MyProduct</SmCaps>"
> "Chapter 7, Use <SmCaps>MyOtherProduct</SmCaps>"
> 
> 3. Create your cross-reference linking to the chapter title.
> The result should have the word or words you applied the character tag to
> should display as small caps in the cross reference.
> 
> You shouldn't have to make any changes to your cross-reference formats
> themselves.
> This worked for me in my testing.
> 
> 
> David Spreadbury
> Sr. Technical Writer
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jenny Greenleaf [mailto:jgreenleaf at mac.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:29 PM
> To: David Spreadbury
> Subject: Re: Small caps in the middle of a cross reference
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> I have a really bad cold and a Friday deadline. I'm not thinking as well as
> I could be!
> 
> Can you be more specific? I can't select a single word in the generated
> reference. Are you doing this in the cross-reference dialog?
> 
> I'm using a paragraph cross-reference format that's specified as:  <M Mixed>
> <$paranum>, <paratext> <Default Para Font>.
> 
> M Mixed generates a blue italic font for the cross reference.  paranum pulls
> in the chapter number, and paratext, the title of the chapter.  I can't
> apply a tag to paratext, since the small caps is only one word.
> 
> Obviously, there's something that I'm not getting....
> 
> Jenny
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 26, 2010, at 3:21 PM, David Spreadbury wrote:
> 
>> Jenny,
>> You might be looking to fix the problem in the wrong area.
>> 
>> I went and experimented with applying a SmCaps Character Tag to a word in
> an
>> existing cross-reference and then I updated my cross-references.
>> 
>> The word came across as SmCaps while the remainder of the cross reference
>> retained the default xref font.
>> 
>> David Spreadbury
>> Sr. Technical Writer
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
>> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jenny Greenleaf
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:07 PM
>> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>> Subject: Small caps in the middle of a cross reference
>> 
>> The boss has decreed that the product names will appear in small caps. 
>> 
>> I have a couple of cross references that refer to chapter titles
> containing
>> these product names. Although the name is in small caps in the chapter
>> title, it is not in small caps in the cross reference. The references are
>> "Chapter 2, Get started with MyProduct" and "Chapter 7, Use
> MyOtherProduct".
>> 
>> I poked at the manual and the CR dialog a bit. The manual tells you how to
>> add character formatting, but only to the X-ref as a whole. I just need
>> small caps for one word. 
>> 
>> I can put up with any sort of workaround, since it's only two and it's
> very
>> important to my employer. 
>> 
>> Ideas? 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Jenny Greenleaf
>> Portland, OR
>> 
>> 
> 
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