Re: Copy/paste of in-book xrefs

2013-02-28 Thread Robert Lauriston
That's one of the reasons I prefer to put all my content into a single .fm file. My books typically have only three or four files: booknameFM.fm for front matter used only for PDF, booknameTOC.fm, and sometimes booknameIX.fm. Once upon a time computers weren't powerful enough to handle a 200-page

RE: Copy/paste of in-book xrefs

2013-02-28 Thread Harro de Jong
Steve Rickaby wrote: > > I have a lot of new in-book xrefs to add, so I am finding the first such > instance, > setting up the xref, then copy/pasting it to all other required locations in > the book. ... > > What's happening is that I get no unresolved xrefs, but after I've closed the > book

RE: Copy/paste of in-book xrefs

2013-02-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:08 -0800 28/2/13, Alison Craig wrote: >I do the same thing on a small scale all the time (21 files in my book). But >in order to avoid the "unresolved" problem I take the following steps... Neat trick: I'll remember that. Many thanks. -- Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power

RE: Copy/paste of in-book xrefs

2013-02-28 Thread Alison Craig
essage- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 6:29 AM To: Shmuel Wolfson; Fred Ridder; Harro de Jong; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Copy/paste of in-book xrefs At 16:18 +0200

Re: Copy/paste of in-book xrefs

2013-02-28 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 16:18 +0200 28/2/13, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: >I'm not 100% sure about all this. I've just noticed certain combinations don't >work and certain do. If anyone has more definitive information, please let us >know. As Fred explained to me off list, FrameMaker stores an in-document xref differentl

Re: Copy/paste of in-book xrefs

2013-02-28 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
I think it has to do with wither the cross-reference source and destination are in the same file. If the source (the place were the cross-reference is located) is in File A and the destination is in File B, I think you can copy that cross-reference to File C without a problem. Likewise if the s

RE: Copy/paste of in-book xrefs

2013-02-28 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
I think I'd add doing an update of all xrefs into that workflow before saving & closing the book. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:07 AM To: framers@