Reply To: Is there a way to autogenerate cross references?

Hi Keith

Am I right in thinking that you essentially want to create your list of destination reference points in the cross-reference panel all at once via the paragraph style selector then, as you work on your document, insert a reference by selecting it from the cross-reference list? Or use the paragraph style selector to create all references and then have something like a loaded cursor to place them? I wasn’t sure what you meant by “add them in sequence of appearance”.

Creating the list of references is very manual and quite tedious as you say, but when you create the cross reference you also determine any automatic text (e.g. “section “[x-ref chapter no.]” on page “[x-ref page]) as well as being able to apply format (character style), and that might vary, though it sounds like perhaps not in your case.

I use various styles of cross-references in our books and haven’t looked at any scripts or plug-ins, but despite the manual nature I do like the flexibility of output that it allows.

I agree with David though, if you can think of how the feature could work better then provide the feedback to Adobe. I often feel that Indesign development has stagnated, and while I don’t want new features for the sake of them, ideas for workflow improvement from real users are important.

Nick