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Cross Reference – Alert or Update?

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    • #61731
      Anonymous
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      Hi everyone,

      I have a medical document I am setting with many cross references in it all pointing to the same page. You can imagine the references:

      4. Benson & Hedges et al Summary of Prod. Char 2007

      5. Lambert J & Butler R, Correlation between refractory or intolerant dispocles 2007:1-5

      etc etc

      There are 49 of these, and they are referenced throughout the text with superscript numbers after pertinent phrases:

      'When Benson investigated these, he found no correlation4' (where 4 is superscript)

      I have set up the cross references with a custom setting using this definition:

      <fullPara delim=”.” />

      as I want the superscript numbers only to show the ref number and then stop. It works a treat and all the refs are in. However when I go to update the references, ie to add a new one in, sometimes I get a yellow 'update' icon, and sometimes I get a red 'broken' icon.

      If I change ref '4. Benson & Hedges' to '5. Benson & Hedges', I get red links, whereas I would have expected ID to report this as an update. But if I update '13. Pearl & Dean' to '1x. Pearl & Dean' I get a yellow link. I can then change it to 'xx. P&D' and still get a yellow – but if I change it directly to 'xx. P&D' the link reports as broken.

      What's going on? I assume it's to do with my custom definition, but I dont see what it could be. Can anyone help?

      Thanks

      Ra

      PS I'm using CS5 on a Mac

    • #61743
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Hello all

      I cracked this eventually. Using the Story Editor I could see the hidden character denoting the destination link – I was deleting this by mistake along with my ref number.

      God bless that Story Editor, InDesign's wireframe friend.

      Thanks

      R

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