forcing a See also xref

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AElfwine Mischler

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Jul 15, 2025, 12:32:25 PMJul 15
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I have an edited volume in which the spellings vary from chapter to chapter, depending on whether the author used Arabic or Persian transliteration. There are several names beginning with Ebn, and several beginning with Ibn. I want to put at the top of each a xref: See also names beginning with...
For example:
Ibn. See also names beginning with Ebn
Ibn Athir, [page numbers]
Ibn Jawzi, [page numbers]
Ibn Kathir, [page numbers]

So far I have just put xref and then manually typed also and made it italic. I'm not sure how Sky is going to accept this when the index is generated, but it seems to be OK in the Index Pane. Is there a way to force this?

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tone...@comcast.net

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Jul 15, 2025, 12:59:08 PMJul 15
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Ugh, I’m trying again because my last one got kicked back!

Sorry, I also found it in the manual (and wanted to make sure the group got it as well)

 

Original message: When I tried it, I got the message (and this is only part of it): “If for some reason you want to override the proper ‘by-the-book’ cross-reference assignment, you may enter either ‘xref.see’ or ‘xref.also’ instead of ‘xref’. I tried it (with ‘xref.also’) and it worked great. Hope this works for you as well.

 

And from the Manual (page 67):

Toggle See/See also

This command changes a forced ‘see’ (xref.see) to a forced ‘see also’ (xref.also) cross-reference or vice versa. It has no effect on cross-references that have their type automatically assigned (xref).

To Toggle a forced see or see also cross-reference, choose Utilities>Toggle see/see also

See also: Create Reciprocal Cross-reference

 

Tony

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AElfwine Mischler

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Jul 15, 2025, 2:52:21 PMJul 15
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Thanks, Tony. I couldn’t quite find it in the index, and when I looked at the section you mentioned, it didn’t seem to be quite what I wanted. Skimming the page too fast.


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