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  1. I'm half way through creating my book and realise that I can't publish it without cross references. They are essential for the book's purpose.
  2. I'm very happy we got book support. I just wish that it was enough to abandon InDesign for a major project I am working on. The one key feature I need is Cross-references, that it, forward and back references that can span multiple book sections, and automatically update page number and/or note numbers within the text to refer to those references. We already have Anchors and Hyperlinks. That gets us most of the way there. Now we need to tie it to fields with a specific format to refer to those Anchors. We need to be able to define a template for these references, so that we can insert page and/or note numbers (in the case the Anchor appears in a foot/end note). And it needs to work across different documents in the same book. Don't get me wrong. This is still great progress. But I long for the day I can abandon InDesign.
  3. I have been using Publisher for a few months now. I liked it because of its intuitive layout and ease of use compared to Scribus or InDesign. However, when I started using it to layout a project of mine, a pen and paper RPG book, I found that some critical parts of it were missing, namely: Ability to number chapters/points by selecting the headers and formatting them as a numbered list. At the moment, I'm writing the numbers manually for the main chapters, but the subchapters are almost impossible to track, because if I have to add or modify anything, they won't self-update. Cross-references are tough. TOCs work fine, as do indexes, and hyperlinks, but the text of the hyperlinks is fixed and can't be self-updated. Even a word processor like MS Word has the option of inserting cross-references and have the text be automatically the page number, the chapter number, or the text of the header (would be the anchor, in your case). Automatic fields are very limited, to the point that besides the document metadata, the current date/time, or the current number of pages, it can't barely do a thing. Adding more would be great, or at least offer the option to script the fields in some way, in that case we could at least try to do so, by selecting properties of objects (like the page number of an anchor, for instance).
  4. The lack of cross references (unless I have overlooked the addition of it) is a real road block to me. I would like to finally start using APub for more than testing and playing around. But the lack of that feature still makes me have to fall back on Word or other software atm.
  5. My last document in InDesign had quite a lot of cross references (see page XX) and these were trivial to set up because I could choose a heading and the field put in the correct page number for that heading. As text reflowed, I didn't have to worry about manually going through and fixing up page references, with the associated chance of errors. Does Affinity have a similar feature? I couldn't spot it in the help documents or via google, but I could just be looking for the wrong terms! (nb just to be clear, I'm not thinking about references in an index here, I'm thinking about references in the body of the text of a document) Many thanks for advice.
  6. I agree with other forum members: Affinity Publisher sorely needs cross reference functionality.
  7. I would like to see support for cross references in the future version of Affinity Publisher. Not only should you cross reference within same document, but also to other documents within same book. I also would like do do cross reference to a footnote (which is not possible with InDesign today).
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