Here is a simple question that I'm sure will have a LOT of opinion. I hope...
Building some print-friendly xref formats, and I'm curious what people here actually use. We're all familiar with the function (I think) or at least, we should be. You may have text like this: Chapter 1. Canada Blah blah 1.A Alberta Blah blah 1.B New Brunswick Blah blah Plus you have tables, figures, equations, sections, examples, steps, etc, etc, etc. You link to stuff like "Canada" or "Chapter 1" or "Chapter 1. Canada" or even "Canada on page 23" or whatever. Some xref content may be "See <$paratext>" or "<$paranumonly>" or "step <$paranumonly>". You may also choose to put in sentences like "For more information see section <$paranumonly> on page\ <$pagenum>. " so that it is a self-contained sentence. I don't know. There are a LOT of ways to xref to stuff though. My question is this: What would be the top 3 or 4 ways *you* xref something? Not the steps to insert an xref, but the way it looks in your output. What does the code or the xref look like? Do you put in full sentence xrefs? Do you use words in them? Do you use quotes around content? I know that there are a bizzilion ways to xref stuff, so input would be greatly appreciated. Lastly, I'm not concerned about online as that can be changed at publish time. What do you do though in the print materials? For example, if I use "For more info see pg <$pagenum>. " as a sentence in the online I can just replace it with <$paranumonly>, or <@paratext>, or whatever. The issue for me is "what do people do for print" in regards to the numbering, text, quotes, etc. Thanks to all. Bernard Bernard Aschwanden bern...@publishingsmarter.com www.publishingsmarter.com Write Less. Write Better. _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
