Re: Cross-refs between text insets

[Martha J Davidson <editrix@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:40 PM 7/11/2001 -0400, edunn@transport.bombardier.com wrote:
>If you must make it work you should:
>1 - create a xref marker in the target text inset (A).
>2 - in the destination text inset (B), insert a crossreference pointing to the
>xref marker in the container document.

Exactly right.

>Why do I say yuck? Well, I would think this would defeat the purpose of 
>reusable
>text insets as the second text inset (B) now is locked into using a xref
>pointing to inset A in a specific instance. If you want to reuse inset B
>elsewhere the xref may not be valid and if you change it you will 
>invalidate it
>in the current usage.

Not quite.  You just have to have separate condition tags for each book 
that will import the text inset, and multiple copies of the 
cross-reference, each pointing to the proper container chapter in the 
destination book.  Sounds uglier than it is in practice.

martha

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Martha Jane {Kolman | Davidson}
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