[Framers] A bizarre cross-reference issue

[Peter Gold]

To Craig's point about informing template users (including my own future
self,) about gotchas, I used to place short conditionalized informative
notes in margin areas on master pages. The notes were turned on in the
saved templates, so they would not be missed on first use. If needed, they
would point to the location of detailed template documentation.

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 10:08 AM Craig Ede <craigede at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Rick’s suggestion highlights one of the pitfalls of FrameMaker’s tagging
> system. If you overlay a character tag with another character tag, you may
> get a mix of characteristics in the text depending on the settings for each
> of the character tags. Anything left “As Is” in the second applied tag will
> retain the earlier tag’s setting (if it differs from the paragraph
> settings). However, if you search on the first char tag name, FM will not
> find it in any text where another char tag has overlaid it, so you lost the
> ability to search effectively for a tag. You’re then stuck with modifying
> such text by doing a search for character tag overrides.
>
> Much better to foresee what combinations of characteristics might occur
> and create separate ‘combo tags’ that do all the things you might want done
> to the text. Just remember to have a template usage guide that gives your
> writers this info so that they don’t subvert the intent by just overlaying
> two tags.
>
> Craig
>
> ________________________________
> From: Framers <framers-bounces+craigede=hotmail.com at lists.frameusers.com>
> on behalf of rick at rickquatro.com <rick at rickquatro.com>
> ....Instead of applying two character formats, I would suggest that you
> make a
> single character format called SuperscriptLink (or something like that)
> that
> has both the superscript position and your link color. This should be more
> reliable than applying two separate character formats to the number.
>
> Rick Quatro
>
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