Thank you. I was really getting confused because, as it turned out, I had several of these, and most of them were behaving properly.
I looked at the headings, and sure enough, the appropriate terms were in small caps and always had been. I re-applied the cross-reference and that seems to have fixed it. Jenny On Jan 26, 2010, at 3:40 PM, David Spreadbury wrote: > 1. Create a character tag call SmCaps. > 2. In the heading that will be the cross-reference destination, apply the > SmCaps char tag to the word or words you want to appear as SmCaps. (I use > HTML-like tags in the below example to represent wrapping SmCaps around > specific word(s) in the Chapter Titles.) > > "Chapter 2, Get started with <SmCaps>MyProduct</SmCaps>" > "Chapter 7, Use <SmCaps>MyOtherProduct</SmCaps>" > > 3. Create your cross-reference linking to the chapter title. > The result should have the word or words you applied the character tag to > should display as small caps in the cross reference. > > You shouldn't have to make any changes to your cross-reference formats > themselves. > This worked for me in my testing. > > > David Spreadbury > Sr. Technical Writer > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jenny Greenleaf [mailto:jgreenleaf at mac.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:29 PM > To: David Spreadbury > Subject: Re: Small caps in the middle of a cross reference > > Hi David, > > I have a really bad cold and a Friday deadline. I'm not thinking as well as > I could be! > > Can you be more specific? I can't select a single word in the generated > reference. Are you doing this in the cross-reference dialog? > > I'm using a paragraph cross-reference format that's specified as: <M Mixed> > <$paranum>, <paratext> <Default Para Font>. > > M Mixed generates a blue italic font for the cross reference. paranum pulls > in the chapter number, and paratext, the title of the chapter. I can't > apply a tag to paratext, since the small caps is only one word. > > Obviously, there's something that I'm not getting.... > > Jenny > > > > On Jan 26, 2010, at 3:21 PM, David Spreadbury wrote: > >> Jenny, >> You might be looking to fix the problem in the wrong area. >> >> I went and experimented with applying a SmCaps Character Tag to a word in > an >> existing cross-reference and then I updated my cross-references. >> >> The word came across as SmCaps while the remainder of the cross reference >> retained the default xref font. >> >> David Spreadbury >> Sr. Technical Writer >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com >> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jenny Greenleaf >> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:07 PM >> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com >> Subject: Small caps in the middle of a cross reference >> >> The boss has decreed that the product names will appear in small caps. >> >> I have a couple of cross references that refer to chapter titles > containing >> these product names. Although the name is in small caps in the chapter >> title, it is not in small caps in the cross reference. The references are >> "Chapter 2, Get started with MyProduct" and "Chapter 7, Use > MyOtherProduct". >> >> I poked at the manual and the CR dialog a bit. The manual tells you how to >> add character formatting, but only to the X-ref as a whole. I just need >> small caps for one word. >> >> I can put up with any sort of workaround, since it's only two and it's > very >> important to my employer. >> >> Ideas? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Jenny Greenleaf >> Portland, OR >> >> > >
