Craig,
Won't help with the definition of cross-reference formats, but in
running text, you can apply two character formats easily in a structured
document--one element inside another, each applying character
properties. Both element tags survive.
--Lynne
On 4/23/2021 8:08 AM, Craig Ede wrote:
Rick’s suggestion highlights one of the pitfalls of FrameMaker’s tagging
system. If you overlay a character tag with another character tag, you may get
a mix of characteristics in the text depending on the settings for each of the
character tags. Anything left “As Is” in the second applied tag will retain the
earlier tag’s setting (if it differs from the paragraph settings). However, if
you search on the first char tag name, FM will not find it in any text where
another char tag has overlaid it, so you lost the ability to search effectively
for a tag. You’re then stuck with modifying such text by doing a search for
character tag overrides.
Much better to foresee what combinations of characteristics might occur and
create separate ‘combo tags’ that do all the things you might want done to the
text. Just remember to have a template usage guide that gives your writers this
info so that they don’t subvert the intent by just overlaying two tags.
--
Lynne A. Price
Text Structure Consulting, Inc.
Specializing in structured FrameMaker consulting, application development, and
training
lpr...@txstruct.com http://www.txstruct.com
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