framers Digest, Vol 101, Issue 27

[Carol J. Elkins]

Thanks for trying, Winfried. Unfortunately, text in the middle of the 
cross-reference isn't annotatable. The I-beam cursor starts 
red-lining wherever it is placed and the user can't segregate just 
the text that they want to annotate from the surrounding text in the 
cross-reference.

I think that either identifying the revision in a balloon or 
encircling it with an added explanation is the only option. Since 
cross-references exist on a layer above the text, I was hoping there 
was a nifty way to "drill down" below the cross-ref layer to get at 
the text. Worse case, I could teach my reviewers how to delete all 
cross-refs in the document, but that is too complex and also defeats 
the purpose of checking to ensure the cross-refs go to where they should.

I'll add it to my list of feature requests.

Carol

At 11:00 AM 3/28/2014, you wrote:
>Hi Carol,
>
>I just did what you describe, and it works without any problems.
>I created a file with some text, created a cross-reference
>to this paragraph which lists only the paragraph text
>(<$paratext>) and created a PDF.
>Then I move the cursor to the right of the cross-reference.
>The cursor's appearance changes to an i-beam. Then I press
>the left mouse button and move the i-beam across the cross-
>reference. Then I press the Strikethrough symbol to apply this
>comment type.
>This also works when I press the Strikethough icon first and then
>start selecting. This works whether I start selecting from the left
>or the right side of the cross-reference.
>Maybe you should move the cursor farther away to get the i-beam
>cursor.
>
>Best regards