Re: hyperlink markers vs. cross refs

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

> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:02:10 GMT jeremy@omsys.com (Jeremy H.
> Griffith)wrote:
>  
> > The main situation in which xrefs are not really usable is when we don't
> > want $paratext (or $paranum) from the source to appear at the site of the
> > reference.  Perhaps we don't want *all* the $paratext, just a word or two.
> > Or a paraphrase of it.  In that case, to use xrefs, we'd have to use a
> > unique xref format (with the desired text for the hotspot) for each xref,
> > and that would quickly become unmanageable.  So then we turn to hyperlinks.

Well, there is one other possible solution. *If* the source paragraph
contains no autonumbering, define an autonumber string for it that
consists of the phrase you wish to appear in the cross-reference text.
Place the autonumber at End of Paragraph, and let it use a character
format defined as invisible, 2 pt. text. (Hopefully, this won't cause
an unwanted line break in the source paragraph.)
Then cross-ref the source paragraph using $paranum. This will fetch
the invisible, manually entered autonumber string.


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