First, if I were you, I'd resist this. I think it's unnecessary and could
become a potential maintenance nightmare. The SME seems to be under the
impression that if a reader, probably another coder, will forget what a
basic programming object is in less than 90 seconds... If the SME forgets,
there may be a reason to do it, but if he or she can hold on to the concept
for an hour or so, your readers probably can.
If I had to do this, I'd probably use a glossary entry for these because
they are, in fact, definitions and glossary entries are lighter weight.
With all that said, if you must do this, you _should_ be able to define one
of the cross-refs and embed it with its text string hotspot. Then copy the
word, including the cross-ref marker (you have text objects turned on,
right?) and do a search-and-replace for the text string, pasting from the
clipboard.
Art Campbell
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Avraham Makeler <amakeler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> RE: FM72. Tool to quickly makes loads of cross-refs?
>
> I just a received some whole new sections for updating an FM book. The book
> is a large reference guide for an API. Every other word in the new material
> is in fact the name of some software object (function, structure, or type)
> that's defined somewhere else as its own section. The new material talks
> about those already defined software objects and how to use them. So the
> SME
> wants every mentioning of those already defined software objects to be
> converted to a cross-reference. (Anyone who has documented APIs knows what
> I
> am talking about.) Is there some sort of tool that allows you to
> type+select
> the name of the section (function) or even just its legal number and then
> click, and hey presto, the cross-reference appears?
>
> Once, during a slow period, I programmed exactly that tool for Word using
> VBA. Took me about a week. Works great.
>
> TIA
>
> - avi
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