What clever ideas you both have had.
thanks very much

On 2/19/08, Peter Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, Carrie and Steve:
>
> To extend Steve's suggestion a bit:
>
> If you always want to ignore the "lead in" word or phrase, whatever it
> may be, in the cross-reference - sometimes "displaying the ",
> sometimes "defining an ", sometimes "brewing with a ", etc - consider
> constructing these headings with two paragraph formats. Define a
> run-in paragraph format for the introductory word or phrase, and an
> in-column (normal) paragraph format for the following part. In other
> words, construct the headings of several paragraphs as building
> blocks, so you can cross-reference to each one individually.
>
> Example:
> Run-in paragraph format "part1intro": The wonderful world of the
> Run-in paragraph format "part2topicname" xy statistics
> Run-in paragraph format "itemname" screen
> In-column paragraph format "bodyafterhead": is better than sliced
> bread. Just try these features, blah blah
>
> The <$paratext> building block of a cross-reference that points to a
> part2topicname paragraph retrieves "xy statistics", in the above
> example.
>
> With care, you can a number of consecutive run-in paragraphs for this
> kind of pin-point cross-reference retrieval.
>
> OK?
>
> HTH
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
> _______________________________
> Peter Gold
> KnowHow ProServices
>
>
>
> On Feb 19, 2008 11:38 AM, Stuart Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Carrie Baker wrote:
> > > Frame 7.2
> > > I am documenting an application with all sorts of reports that can be
> > > generated and displayed by selecting the appropriate screen in a
> > > dialog box.
> > > Each sort of report is described in the documentation with a  heading
> > > 2 that used to say "The xy Statistics screen" and explains what you do
> > > with it and available options, explains the meaning of the parameters
> > > they see etc.
> > > Now I would like to call all of the headings "Displaying Xy
> > > Statistics", Displaying z statistics etc.
> > > The FrameMaker problem I am encountering is that originally at the
> > > beginning of the section someone had written, "the following screens
> > > are available and had a list of cross references to all of the titles
> > > which were each called xy screen etc."
> > > Now I have changed the title the cross reference to these headings
> > > will say, the following statistics can be displayed, and say for each
> > > cross reference "Displaying xy statistics etc."
> > > I like this list of cross reference as when I convert the files to
> > > help, they are my hyperlinks, as well as the fact that we distribute
> > > the documentation as PDFs.
> > > The question is:
> > > Can I create a cross reference to somewhere, when the text that
> > > appears in the cross reference is something that I type in, and not
> > > the text that appears in Heading 2 (i.e. will say xy statistics, even
> > > though the header it jumps to is called Displaying xy statistics)?
> > > thanks
> >
> >
> > I'm not entirely confident I understand your question, but I'll have a
> > go at it...
> >
> > You have a lot of headings of the pattern "Displaying xy statistics" and
> > you want cross references of the pattern "xy statistics".  Yes?  You
> > could change the headings to have an autonumber of "Displaying " and in
> > your cross-ref format, use the <$paratext> building block.  Elsewhere if
> > you want the full heading referenced, use <$paranum><$paratext>.
> >
>


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Carrie Baker
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