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1. Re: How to make an Indesign cross reference that includes text AFTER a delimiter?
If you are using automatic numbering, I'm pretty sure it's an option to omit the number.
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2. Re: How to make an Indesign cross reference that includes text AFTER a delimiter?
Tables of contents have such an option ("Numbered paragraphs: [Include full paragraph], [Include numbers only], [Exclude numbers]").
I've looked for an equivalent option in the Cross Reference formats window, and in the manual listing the Cross References code syntax (I would give a link but Adobe Help is doing that freezing thing again), as well as the Paragraph Styles options, but I can't see anything like that.
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3. Re: How to make an Indesign cross reference that includes text AFTER a delimiter?
The help page finally loaded after hanging for 10 minutes... Double-checking, I was looking in the wrong place. You need to use <fullPara> for the delimiter options, but, if you use Paragraph Text (<paraText />) it excludes paragraph numbers. So, that solves the immediate problem.
Hypothetically, is there anything I could do if it wasn't an automated paragraph number that I wanted to exclude from the start of the paragraph? Say it was one article in a series, with the series name included in the title before the colon (say "Great Gnomes Of Our Times: Harold the fisherman"), and someone wanted the unique part after the colon?
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5. Re: How to make an Indesign cross reference that includes text AFTER a delimiter?
I think you could select just the text you want and create a text anchor from it, then link to that.
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6. Re: How to make an Indesign cross reference that includes text AFTER a delimiter?
@Peter Spier - that's what I settled with doing last time I had this problem - manually creating hyperlink destinations of type Text Anchor in each heading, then pointing cross references to these and using <textAnchorName> because there's no way (not that I can see, anyway) to use specifically the highlighted text anchor text.
The trouble with this is, it's just an arbitrary text string rather than anything linked to the text.
It has the advantage that all inbound cross-references use the same arbitrary string of text, so if you have 20 cross references to one heading you can create a 'Text anchor' Hyperlink Destination, use the text as the name, then update it (by ploughing through all the options in the dropdown in Hyperlink Destination Options) for all 20 at once, but you need to manually update the text anchor name every time the heading text changes, which can easily lead to mistakes if multiple people are working on the document.
@Steve Werner - Didn't spot anything in that video that looks like it helps.
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7. Re: How to make an Indesign cross reference that includes text AFTER a delimiter?
I have not tried this, but perhaps you could combine a custom text variable for the part of the text you want to update with the text anchor cross-ref.
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8. Re: How to make an Indesign cross reference that includes text AFTER a delimiter?
Are you using InDesign's built-in cross-references, or the DTP Tools Cross-referencdes plug-in? I'm guessing the latter, and if so, "delimiter" refers to a character you specify that's in the actual paragraph text, not in the auto-numbered part of the paragrah. And, if I'm wrong...never mind.
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alanomaly wrote:
@Peter Spier - that's what I settled with doing last time I had this problem - manually creating hyperlink destinations of type Text Anchor in each heading, then pointing cross references to these and using <textAnchorName> because there's no way (not that I can see, anyway) to use specifically the highlighted text anchor text.
The trouble with this is, it's just an arbitrary text string rather than anything linked to the text.
It has the advantage that all inbound cross-references use the same arbitrary string of text, so if you have 20 cross references to one heading you can create a 'Text anchor' Hyperlink Destination, use the text as the name, then update it (by ploughing through all the options in the dropdown in Hyperlink Destination Options) for all 20 at once, but you need to manually update the text anchor name every time the heading text changes, which can easily lead to mistakes if multiple people are working on the document.
@Steve Werner - Didn't spot anything in that video that looks like it helps.
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9. Re: How to make an Indesign cross reference that includes text AFTER a delimiter?
No, built-in cross references in CS6. Delimiter like the "delim=" bit in the code at the very top of the question.
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10. Re: How to make an Indesign cross reference that includes text AFTER a delimiter?
Sometimes I make the simple things more difficult than they should be. I haven't used the partial paragraph format for a long time, so I forgot the syntax. I was half right and half wrong. Sorry about the wrong half.
The issue, however, is still the same: "delimiter" refers to a character in the text of the paragraph, not in the auto-number.
Is it accurate to say that your question is more like how to make a cross-reference format that omits a character from a paragraph style's automunber?
alanomaly wrote:
No, built-in cross references in CS6. Delimiter like the "delim=" bit in the code at the very top of the question.
