FM12 has char format in xref been fixed?

[Carol J. Elkins]

Thanks, Steve. My struggle right now is with cross-references to 
paragraphs that, in addition to regular text,  house hypertext links 
formatted with a Character tag that makes the text blue; and 
cross-references that house an italicized citation to a book. The 
character-formatted text in those cross-refs lose their character 
formatting. I use cross-references because I want to single-source 
the source text.  I can't avoid character formatting in these 
instances. And as you stated, breaking one cross-ref into three 
separate cross-refs to access the text before and after the 
character-formatted text is impractical.

Just as I can import text insets and retain their formatting, I would 
hope that eventually Adobe will give me the option to use cross-refs 
while retaining the source formatting. Call it a feature enhancement.

Carol

At 12:54 PM 2/4/2014, you wrote:
>This is absolutely true, but not the problem you originally reported ;-)
>
>Referring to your original problem, in the ancient version of 
>FrameMaker that I'm currently using (7), character tagging is indeed 
>lost in xrefs. It may be intended behavior, or just an accidental 
>side-effect of the power of FrameMaker's cross-reference formatting. 
>As it's got xref builders that can themselves apply formatting, it 
>can't honor any formatting in the source text. I.e, <$paratext> 
>means just that - the text of the source paragraph, and only the 
>text. The question would be, if FrameMaker *did* honor character 
>formatting in the source of the xref, how would it combine that with 
>formatting applied in the xref format definition?