Preserving Character Formats in Cross-Re

[smurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I have a problem for which I need a work-around, if anyone has one:

1. I have a FM file containing (among other things) a series of   
procedural steps that are cross-referenced elsewhere in a table (the   
table is in the same file in this case). The cross-reference uses the   
<$paratext> building block to reference the text of the step. So far, so   
good...

2. This is mainframe documentation in which variables have a character   
format called "variable" (oddly enough). The format italicizes the text.   
For example, part of one step is: "Copy the codehlq.LOADLIB members to a   
linklisted data set." in which the word "codehlq" is a variable, and   
italicized.

3. Cross-references do not preserve character formats, so the text in the   
table is all normal text, and there is no way to go in and make this   
single word have the variable character attribute/format.

Short of converting it back to text, does anyone have any ideas?

Note: Someone is bound to come back and suggest placing the character   
format name in angle brackets (<variable>) in the cross-reference format   
definition. That does not work in this case; it would change the entire   
text... hope I am saving someone some typing!

Thanks

Steve Murphy
Senior Documentation Specialist
Adobe Certified Expert/FrameMaker, Acrobat
SOFTWORKS, Inc.
5845 Richmond Highway
Alexandria, VA  22303 USA
(703) 317-8879
smurphy@softworkscc.com  

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