How do I create a cross reference which uses more than one line of text?

[Shlomo Perets]

Theresa,

You wrote:

>Version 8
>
>I'd like to use these two lines in a cross reference:
>
>Id 069
>Workshop Title
>
>so that my cross reference looks like this
>
>"Id 069 - Workshop Title on page 22"


If the Workshop ID and Title are two separate paragraphs, you can use a 
cross-format which retrieves information from separate paragraphs: the one 
you are pointing to (which will also store cross-ref marker) and one or 
more *preceding* paragraphs with a specified format (using the 
<$paratext[paratag]> building block).  (This applies to all versions of FM)

For example, assuming these paragraphs...

<pgftag=WorkshopID>ID 069
<pgftag=any>Workshop Title

   ... your cross-reference format would be:

<$paratext[WorkshopID]> – <$paratext>

(and you point to the *any* pgf tag when inserting the cross-reference).


Shlomo Perets

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