Ah yes. I see the problem now. It opens the chapter but doesn't know where to go from there. Thank you!
That explains a lot! Deirdre On 6/17/08, Combs, Richard <richard.combs at polycom.com> wrote: > Deirdre Reagan wrote: > > > I went to the broken cross reference, clicked on it, and it opened the > > title page and displayed, via the dialog box, that it knew exactly > > where it was supposed to go to find its source. So the cross > > reference knows what its source is, and the source is there, patiently > > waiting, but updating the book doesn't seem to get these two piece to > > work, without that black T. > > No, it didn't. It knew the source file for the cross-reference (and > asked permission to open it if necessary), but not _exactly_ where to go > in that file. It's the oversized T, which is a cross-reference marker, > that identifies the destination. > > I just deleted a cross-reference marker (I'm using FM 7.2) and then > double-clicked a cross-reference to it. The Cross-Reference dialog box > showed the destination file in the Document field at the top. On the > left, it displayed Marker Types (not Paragraphs). On the right it > displayed the Cross-Reference Markers list, but _none was selected_. > Because the marker that the xref used to point to wasn't in the list > anymore. > > Setting Source Type to Paragraphs changed the left list to Paragraph > Tags and the right list to Paragraphs. But on the left, the first item > in the list (in my case, Body) was selected. And again, on the right, no > specific instance of a pgf tag was selected. > > Selecting a pgf tag (in my case TitleChapter) on the left and a specific > instance of that tag on the right fixed the xref -- by inserting a new > cross-reference marker at the beginning of the selected pgf. > > As a convenience, FM lets you create xrefs by selecting the destination > pgf. But when you do that, "behind the scenes," FM inserts an xref > marker in that pgf, and it's the xref marker that identifies the > destination. If you delete that, you have to recreate it. That's how > cross-references work. > > See "Working with cross-reference markers" and "Resolving > cross-references" in the help/manual. > > HTH! > > Richard > > > Richard G. Combs > Senior Technical Writer > Polycom, Inc. > richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom > 303-223-5111 > ------ > rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom > 303-777-0436 > ------ > > > > > > >
