RE: Cross-ref page number prefix in multi-file book

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:07 AM 11/18/98 -0800, Stanley, Hank wrote:
>	What I want is:
>	See page 6-4.
>
>	What I am getting is:
>	See page 4.
>
>	Since I subscribe only to the Digest, please reply directly to
>	Nancy.
>
>No!  Let everyone know the answer to this one.
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Since my posting privileges on the FrameUsers list have been suspended by
the list owner, I am posting this instead to Free Framers <framers@omsys.com>:

The only way I know to include the chapter number in a cross-reference
within an unstructured document is to use a composite cross-reference, where:

The first cross-reference format, named "ChapNum" is as follows:

        See page <$paranumonly>

The second second cross-reference format, named "PageNum" is as follows:

        -<$pagenum>

First, select the paragraph that contains the chapter number, and insert the
cross-reference that uses the ChapNum format. Immediately following that
one, select the source paragraph, and insert the cross-reference that uses
the PageNum format.

The disadvantage is that, if the user clicks on the first part of the
cross-reference, it takes him/her to the first page of the chapter rather
than to the page being referenced.

However, in a structured FM+SGML document, the whole thing can be done in a
single cross-reference format of the form:

        See page <$elemparanumonly[Chapter]>-<$elempagenum>

Where:
        <$elemparanumonly[Chapter]> refers to the parent Chapter element,
        which contains the chapter number

                                        AND

        <$elempagenum> refers to the page number on which the source is located

To insert the cross-reference, you simply select the cross-reference format
described above, and choose the source element. FM+SGML then looks for the
first ancestor Chapter element preceding the source element to determine the
chapter number, and then adds the page number on which the source element is
located.






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