I think you may be under a (common) misconception about the marker/paragraph option in the Cross-Reference dialog. That option does *not* change anything about the cross- references themselves. The option only changes the information that is displayed in the dialog. In the one case, the dialog presents you with a list of existing x-ref markers in the target file so that you can choose to refer to an existing logically marked location. In the other case, the dialog presents you with a list of all paragraphs with a specified tag so that you can refer to any arbitrary piece of content regardless of whether there is already an x-ref marker in that location.
When using the paragraph list option, if there is already a marker in the target location, FrameMaker uses it. If there is not an existing marker, FrameMaker creates a new marker. And if you then toggle back to the marker list display you will see that new marker included in the list. But the end result is the same either way: an x-ref marker in the target paragraph so that the referring location can find that location. If your cross-references got clobbered in the transition from structured to unstructured, it's because XML handles cross- references very differently than FrameMaker does internally. It has nothing to do with the item listing option that is set in the Cross-Reference dialog. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -----Original Message----- From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel....@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of That Darned Writer Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:27 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: xref help Hi, all, I checked the archives and the power tools list, but didn't find anything. Does anyone of a plugin (or is this a job for Framescript?) that would crawl through a document and change cross references from a reference to a type=marker to type=paragraph? We have a reference guide that went from structured to unstructured, and now we have several thousand cross references that are looking for a marker that's not there. Surely someone's run into this. Is there any workaround? Thanks, as always! ________________________________________ joanne grey j_grey at writeangles.com Principal writer www.writeangles.com
