Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 243)

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4. Locate and select the item to which you want to refer.
▶
Click Location to display the items in the order as they appear in the document.
Typing the first few characters of the item scrolls the list to that point. In Figure 255 above,
typing
jo
would select “John Manly’s Talk”.
Or:
▶
Click Display text to display the items “alphabetically”.
Typing the first few characters of the item scrolls the list to that point. In Figure 255 above,
typing
jo
would select “Joe Green”.
Based on the type of item to which you want to refer, you have a variety of options available for
what appears as the cross-reference.
5. Choose what you want to have appear as the cross-reference text from the Display text pop-up
menu (depending on which option you chose (in step 3 above) from the Insert Reference to
pop-up menu).
▶
Bookmark
• Page Number
displays the number of the page where the marker appears.
• Paragraph Number
displays the number of the paragraph where the marker appears.
• Line Number
displays the number of the line where the marker appears.
• Section Number
displays the number of the section where the marker appears.
• List Item Number
you might bookmark a bit of text that begins with an automatic list number; you can
use this to refer to that number without mentioning the text; if you then add a return
character before the bookmarked text, the cross-reference will reflect the new number.
• Bookmarked Text
displays the actual text you marked.
• “Above” or “Below”
if your reference is nearby (within sight of the bookmark you can simply indicate that it
is above or below).
▶
List Item
• Page Number
displays the number of the page where the list item appears.
• Paragraph Number
displays the number of the paragraph where the marker appears.
• Line Number
displays the number of the line where the list item appears.
• Section Number
displays the number of the section where the list item appears.
• List Item Number
displays the number (the digit only, not any following punctuation) of the list item as in
the parenthetical statement of 5 above.
If the list item is a bullet, or some other text, that bullet or other text appears.
• Paragraph Text
displays only the text of the list item, not its “number” as (using instruction 5 above)
illustrated here:
“Choose what you want to have appear as the cross-reference text from the Display text
pop-up menu (depending on which option you chose (in step 3 above) from the Insert
Reference to pop-up menu).”
• “Above” or “Below”
for use in conjunction with any of the other options, when you do not want to refer to
the text or number directly.