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- From: Phil Buxton <PhilB@BNR.ca>
- Subject: Re: Framemaker 3.1X has cross references confused ...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.150143.6528@bmers18.bnr.ca>
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- References: <1992Dec22.030110.25841@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:01:43 GMT
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- In article Michael Hui, myhui@bnr.ca writes:
-
- >I have cross references to a lot of paragraphs formatted with the
- >Figure format. I created most of the Figure paragraphs by copying the
- >first one and then changing the text. The auto-number works fine, and
- >the cross reference window does show all the different paragraphs with
- >the Figure format. But when I choose "Update" in the cross reference
- >window, most cross references in my text to these Figure formatted
- >paragraphs reverted to the first one on the list, so they all said
- >Figure 1. I went through my whole document to fix this, but once again
- >after I did an Update the same ones reverted back to referencing the
- >first Figure paragraph again.
- >
- >I believe the above qualifies as a bug. Any ideas on how to fix it?
- >I've already sent the above to comments@frame.com this afternoon.
- >Haven't heard anything back from them yet. This runs on a Sparcstation2.
-
- This is kind of weird BUT
- If I copy a cross reference which is what you have done, then I would
- expect that the cross reference cannot be changed. By making a local
- change,
- you are effectively doing a local corrupt of an alias which you could say
- is legal or illegal....
-
- IN THE FUTURE:
- When you copy the figure heading or whatever, make sure that you dont
- copy the cross reference mark as well as the text.
-
- How to save your file now? Hmmm
-
- One way that might work is crash Frame. Then open the autosave file.
- This generally requires that you reaffirm all the cross references
- again and you may be able to change things that way.
-
- You could edit the MIF file if you can work out the pathname that Frame
- uses to get the right cross reference. What I think you could do is
- to find the pathname that it is using and text edit the file destroying
- all references. Then go in and rebuild your cross references to the
- correct paras.
-
- There is another Frame way.
- Use Search and destroy all markers of type "X-ref".
- Then find all your cross references, again the Search command will allow
- you to do this. The words will still be correct in the file, so you
- then readily rebuild the cross references one at a time using
- proper markers.
-
- Hope this helps. Let me know what Frame has to say!!
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