The essence of the workaround that was described is based on the fact that font
family changes are respected in xrefs (try formatting part of a line with
WingDings, for instance). Thus the kludge that allows you to define a family
that incorporates formatting like bold, or italics, or blue, or whatever by
simply making it look like a different font family. (Disclaimer: I have never
done this.)
There are good arguments (as the one you make) for ignoring such formatting as
bold, ital and the like in an xref, but ignoring a ZapfDingbat or symbol font
char format could be disastrous. Imagine a mu becoming an "m" within an xref.
So FrameMaker is designed not to ignore that. The wonderful thing is that you
can use that "feature" to accomplish (albeit with a bit of work) what is
desired by the original poster.
Craig
> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 19:54:44 +0000
> To: celk...@awrittenword.com; fram...@omsys.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com
> From: srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk
> Subject: RE: FM12 has char format in xref been fixed?
>
..<snip>
>
> How you got about it all depends on the context. I would guess from your
> original post that you want to use <$paratext> and get the text *and* any
> character formatting applied to it. But FrameMaker doesn't work like that:
> you can't 'recover' character formatting from an xref source's text.
>
> I don't know about maker.ini fixes, as FrameMaker 7 for Mac doesn't use
> maker.ini.
>
> If all the above is nonsense, or completely off-base, I apologize: I'm trying
> to think in the midst of a gale that's trying to take the roof off.
>
> --
> Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet]
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