Re: Cross Refs - why do they change type?

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxxxxx>]

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At 1:00 pm +0000 8/3/04, Jo Watkiss wrote:
> All cross refs are inserted using 'Paragraph Tags' as the source type.
> Every now and then I find that I have unresolved cross refs.  For some
> reason these are now looking for cross ref markers rather than the Para
> Tags as originally inserted.

From: "Ridder, Fred" <fred.ridder@xxxxxxxxx>
> Paragraph Tags vs. Cross-Reference Markers is *not* a property
> of the cross-references. It is strictly a display option in the Cross-
> Reference dialog. 
> In any event, unresolved cross-references have nothing whatever to 
> do with the display options in the Cross References dialog. The only
> thing that causes FrameMaker to report an unresolved cross-reference
> is when FrameMaker cannot find a marker with the appropriate ID
> number in the target file. Assuming that the correct target file is
> indeed available, the two most common causes of unresolved cross-
> references are unintentional deletion of the marker, or applying a 
> text condition to a marker and then hiding that condition. 

Just one more thing to note: FM may report unresolved cross-refs
when you open a file, but a subsequent search doesn't find any!
This is most often due to the problem that FM needs to (silently)
open the cross-ref'd file(s) to resolve (check) them. If a file that
isn't already open cannot be opened in the background without error
messages (such as unavailable fonts), the cross-ref will be reported
as unresolved. When the cross-ref'd file later is opened and any
error messages are confirmed, the previously unresolved cross-refs
become resolved (since the cross-ref destination now is available).
This typically happens if you Open All Files in Book.

This isn't Jo's original problem, but is worth noting. A special
case of the causes Fred mentions, is that copying and pasting
text containing cross-ref markers (such as headings) may lose the
marker or replace it with a similar marker that isn't "up to the job"
of the original marker.

I hope this came through as lucid as it is in my mind :-)

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