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hi rolf<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4CE4FFBB.6070604@t-online.de" type="cite">Reading
this over, I think actually you wanted something else:
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">When I suspect this might happen, I type
???, as in "...you can find the
<br>
results of this event on page ???"
<br>
<br>
As you may suspect, my batting average in converting the ??? to
an
<br>
actual page number is not as high as I would like it to be. I do
most of
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
That would call for an anchor-like element. A similar thing is a
word, e. g. the name of the month, which changes over the whole
document.
<br>
<br>
Wouldn't it be the solution if you could set an anchor like "page
of xyz", and xyz is on page 23, so the text later reads "see page
23"?
<br>
<br>
And for my special case, in our church monthlies, I wouldn't have
to change all titles and master pages but only set the first one
to the new month - and all places which point to it would change.
<br>
<br>
Is this your MacGuffin?
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
if i understood correctly bruce's post a MacGuffin can be used as a
workaround for the lack of real references in Scribus:<br>
you can use to mark references you still don't know where they
point.<br>
<br>
but this is only one of its many uses.<br>
<br>
you can mark any place in the document where you want to be warned,
that it's not ready for production:<br>
- untranslated words<br>
- bad pictures (you may even mark an area of the picture as a
MacGuffin... am i dreaming)<br>
- a sentence you're not sure of<br>
- a missing title for an article<br>
- a quote you want to check<br>
- a bibliographic entry you have to check<br>
- a text you have to set in the correct color for the corporate
identify of you client<br>
- an url you have to set.<br>
- a text you have to shorten<br>
<br>
anything you know now that it's wrong at the time you put in n your
document but you may forget about it when producing the final PDF.<br>
<br>
the MacGuffin will show up as an error in the preflight verifier
when you print your document or are exporting it to PDF and you will
have a chance to fix it.<br>
<br>
if it's still not clear what a MacGuffin is, here a quote from the
wikipedia article (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin</a>) about a
real MacGuffin in a film:<br>
<br>
"""The MacGuffin is common in <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film" title="Film">films</a>,
especially <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_%28genre%29"
title="Thriller (genre)">thrillers</a>. Commonly, though not
always, the MacGuffin is the central focus of the film in the first
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_%28theater%29" title="Act
(theater)" class="mw-redirect">act</a>, and then declines in
importance as the struggles and motivations of characters play out.
It may come back into play at the climax of the story, but sometimes
the MacGuffin is actually forgotten by the end of the film."""<br>
<br>
again: this is not a replacement for references. just a workaround.
and a damn good workaround which could be useful in many cases!<br>
<br>
ciao<br>
a.l.e<br>
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