At 11:14 -0400 21/6/12, Fred Ridder wrote:
>If you create one instance of the correct cross-reference, you can copy that
>to the clipboard, and then do a Find/Change that uses the "By Pasting" option
>in the Change box. You'll still have to look at each cross-reference you find
>to see if it is one you need to change, but at least you can paste in the
>correct x-ref rather than having to reconstruct it manually.
Fred is correct: FrameMaker's 'replace by pasting' is a wonderfully useful
feature.
As a wild guess, you could probably also do a global search/replace by saving
the file to MIF, opening it in a text editor, identifying the MIF code that
specifies the incorrect xref, and replacing it with the correct one. I've not
tried this though.
Xrefs in MIF look like this:
To a para with a Heading 1 tag in same file...
<XRef
<XRefName `Heading & Page'>
<XRefSrcText `53801: Heading1: Heading 1'>
<XRefSrcIsElem No>
<XRefSrcFile `'>
<XRefLastUpdate 1340295100 0>
<Unique 999233>
> # end of XRef
To another file...
<XRef
<XRefName `Heading & Page'>
<XRefSrcText `53801: Heading1: Heading 1'>
<XRefSrcIsElem No>
<XRefSrcFile `<c\>Xref test.fm'>
<XRefLastUpdate 1340295244 0>
<Unique 999231>
> # end of XRef
where the target of the xref is in a file called 'Xref test.fm'. Note that this
field is present, but blank, in the first example.
--
Steve
