RE: hyperlink markers vs. cross refs

["Ridder, Fred" <fred.ridder@xxxxxxxxx>]

One problem occurs with this approach if you generate PDF from your
document. The 2 pt. text will appear in the PDF file as a gray line, because
that's how Acrobat "greeks" text that is too small to display onscreen. No
matter that the text is white, and therefore invisible against the white
page
background--if it's smaller than 6 pixels (the default greeking threshold 
value in Acrobat Reader), Acrobat displays it as a gray line.

What you may want to try instead is defining an "invisible" character format

that uses the same point size as your regular text (so that the special 
autonumber will only be greeked if the rest of the text is also greeked), 
but which uses a 10% stretch factor so that it takes up very little 
horizontal space.

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder (fred.ridder@intel.com)
Senior Publishing System Analyst
Intel Corporation
Telecommunications and Embedded Group
Parsippany, NJ



-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Michanek [mailto:thomas.michanek@telia.com]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 3:02 PM
To: Carolyn Yoshida
Cc: Free Framers
Subject: Re: hyperlink markers vs. cross refs


> 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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