Small caps in the middle of a cross reference

[Art Campbell]

You may also want to play with creating user variables for the product
names. I believe they'll hold up in cross-refs as well.

Art Campbell
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Jenny Greenleaf <jgreenleaf at mac.com> wrote:
> 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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