At 14:08 -0600 4/2/14, Craig Ede wrote:
>The essence of the workaround that was described is based on the fact that 
>font family changes are respected in xrefs (try formatting part of a line with 
>WingDings, for instance). Thus the kludge that allows you to define a family 
>that incorporates formatting like bold, or italics, or blue, or whatever by 
>simply making it look like a different font family. (Disclaimer: I have never 
>done this.)

Ah... clever.

>There are good arguments (as the one you make) for ignoring such formatting as 
>bold, ital and the like in an xref, but ignoring a ZapfDingbat or symbol font 
>char format could be disastrous. Imagine a mu becoming an "m" within an xref. 
>So FrameMaker is designed not to ignore that. The wonderful thing is that you 
>can use that "feature" to accomplish (albeit with a bit of work) what is 
>desired by the original poster.

Never a day goes past without my learning something new about FrameMaker, even 
after more than 20 years of using it. Makes life interesting, I guess ;-)

-- 
Steve
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