Manually inserted xref markers don't work as expected

[Steve Rickaby]

At 15:25 -0400 18/3/13, Rick Quatro wrote:

>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.

Amazing. After more than two decades, I am still nonplussed by the grace and elegance of this application (post-v8 GUIs notwithstanding).

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