RE: spaces in X-refs

[Deborah Snavely <dsnavely@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christian asked:

>Sometimes I use spaces in a courier text for simple formating reasons. When
I 
>establish a X-Ref to this text and the X-Ref format is <$AbsText> FM 5.5.2
throws
>away my formatting spaces. Does somebody now a workaround?

If your document properties (Format | Document | Text Options... Smart
Spaces ON
are set to use Smart Spaces, FrameMaker will NOT let you type more than one
space in a row. It also automatically corrects any instances of multiple
spaces in text at the time you make a change to that text.  I assume that
you have Smart Spaces turned on and that therefore FrameMaker is deleting
any excess spaces in your cross-reference text. 
(It will also query any instance of multiple spaces in your text during
spelling checks and give you the option to correct all future instances
automatically.)

In general, the way I deal with multiple spaces and other code nonsense in
spelling checks is to use a paragraph tag named "Code" or some such, and set
its default font properties to use Dictionary = None. This setting
(available for character tags as well as paragraph tags) *might* solve your
problem, but I believe you would need to turn off Smart Spaces in your
documents and use spelling checks to correct any multiple spaces that creep
in during writing/editing. Then you can protect your x-refs by creating a
character tag set to "As Is" but with Dictionary = None and apply it to the
cross-reference format(s) in which you need to type multiple spaces. Of
course if you're already using a character tag to format these X-refs, just
change it to incorporate the Dictionary = None setting.

Good luck!
Deborah Snavely

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