Cross-reference oddity in FM 9

[Rene Stephenson]

Hi Schlomo, 


Thanks for responding:  
 
> However, in the context of cross-references, <$paratext> ignores all 
> character formatting present in the extracted paragraph text, except 
> superscript, subscript and font family properties - which are retained only 
> if implemented through a character tag.
> 
> To preserve a property such as italic (or bold), you need to have a 
> different font name for the required variation (even though visually it is 
> the identical font); alternatively, use a different font. For example, I 
> have "Univers-Condensed Oblique" in my font list; text tagged with a 
> character format using this font preserves its italic property when it is 
> cross-referenced. Some font families are installed this way by default.

Schlomo, I think I'm missing something or doing it wrong. I'm attaching an updated Sample.FM.  I changed the font family for Italic char tag to HelveticaNeueLT Std Cn, since that's the most similar font to Arial Narrow that  I have installed on this PC. It shows fine in the variable definition, but when the variable is used in the heading, and then the heading text is xref'd via <$paratext>, it is still not picking up the angle. I don't understand why it works for you, but I'm not getting the desired result. Is it a bug in my FM file or something?

{Aside: It seems to me that either Adobe might want to consider adding another building block that does include the character formats applied to text for cross-references, so that writers have the choice of which standard to follow; or perhaps this is a limitation that doesn't exist in FM 10?}

Thanks,
Rene
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