>Thanks for the comments. A cross-references forces me to use a
>cross-reference format for the link, e.g. "section 4.5". I cannot use a
>reference format, I want to use an arbitrary text for the linking text, as
>in "this is explained in the discussion of cat problems", where the
>underlined text (I hope the mailing list mailer keeps the underline) is my
>own text but a link to some chosen place.
>
>Hyperlinks to this but force me in each case to add two commands, a gotolink
>at the source and a newlink at the target, which is horrendously tedious if
>one has thousands such cases. The newlink is not conceptually necessary
>since all the targets are paragraphs so I should be able simply to choose
>from a paragraph list as with cross-references.

>From memory I used to use the double-link method for this, but I never needed 
>to do it very often. I appreciate your problem. AFAIK you are stymied by 
>FrameMaker's internal model, which only allows xrefs to named styles, i.e. at 
>the paragraph level, rather than to specific runs of text such as a sentence. 
>If there's a way to do this that doesn't involve a double-link process, I'd be 
>interested to hear of it, even though I seldom use FrameMaker these days.

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