Manually inserted xref markers don't work as expected

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Steve,

Yes, Cross-Ref marker text must be unique within a document. Otherwise, how
would a particular Cross-Reference to that marker know which occurrence to
point to?

If you select a paragraph that contains a Cross-Ref marker and cut it and
paste it somewhere else in the document, the marker will be in the pasted
paragraph. But if you copy the paragraph and paste the copy somewhere else,
the Cross-Ref marker will not be in the pasted paragraph. FrameMaker does
not want to make a duplicate marker so it "helps you out" by not pasting the
marker.

Rick

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-283-5045
rick at frameexpert.com



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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 3:17 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Manually inserted xref markers don't work as expected

It seems that cross-reference marker text has to be unique. 

Here's what I'm doing:

. In one document, manually inserting several xref markers, using the same
marker text each time.

. Cross-referencing them from another document as page refs. 

All works as expected (i.e. the page refs show the expected page numbers)
until I update the xrefs, at which point all the page refs default to the
first page that contains any of the xref markers, i.e. to the first match of
the marker text.

Looks like FrameMaker searches it's xref marker list unit the first one is
found. Set them to use different text: it worked. 

I suppose this is consistent with the way in which FrameMaker handles other
marker types.

Just proves that you learn something every day - if you aren't careful.

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Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet]
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