Creative Cross-References

Now that you learned some basic principles of cross-references, let’s discuss a few creative ways to work with them. In this section, I cover working with chapter and volume numbers, including using the volume number as text, as well as using cross-references to build a table of contents and understand the preceding paragraph technique.

Chapter Numbers

If you are including chapter numbers as part of the page number, you can make a slight adjustment to cross-reference formats to include this information in cross-references that display page numbers.

Previously, you learned about the <$pagenum> Building Block, which represents the page number in cross-reference formats. This does not, however, represent your document ...

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