RE: cross-reference/building block question

["Lester C. Smalley" <lsmalley@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Linda,

The missing <link> (sorry, I couldn't resist) is a CHARACTER format that was defined in the template (I hope) or a specific document, but has since been deleted and thus is no longer available. There are two 'types' of building blocks that appear in the list: system building blocks (like <paranumonly>) and character tags saved in the catalog.  Because the character tags can differ from file to file, this explains why you don't see the <link> in the available list.

You can either edit the cross-reference format(s) to no longer use that format by deleting the <link>, or you can define the format as you wish and save it in the character catalog.  If I had to guess, the link format set the text to blue and underlined to look like the hypertext links people are familiar with from HTML files on the web.

N.B. - the lack of the character format should not affect the viability of the cross-reference, only its appearance in the document.  IF you are having cross-references that do not work or don't update, there is some other problem.  Can you provide some more details about what is happening?

-- Lester
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-framers@omsys.com [mailto:owner-framers@omsys.com]On Behalf
Of Linda McClain Jackson
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 15:56
To: 'framers'
Subject: cross-reference/building block question

hi folks

I'm in the process of updating our department's manuals to new FM 6.0
templates.

in porting over the content, I found a glitch w/ how the cross-references
now appear:  they are showing as

"See <link>"Adding a Response Configuration" on page 96 ..."

my hope was that from the Cross Reference dialog box, I could Edit Format,
and still get these to work/update, but that's not proving to be the case.
part of my confusion is that <link> isn't on the building block list.  (I
may be misunderstanding, but I thought building blocks came supplied by FM.)
in sum, I'm needing to manually re-insert the cross-references anew to make
them viable.

is there a more efficient way to go about this?  I was hoping FM would
continue to recognize cross-references in their new context. can FM help me
w/ this?

(we have also recently upgraded to 7.0, but that went smoothly, and I don't
believe that plays into this issue.)

appreciate any guidance in advance,

linda



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