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From: Geico Caveman on 6 Mar 2010 19:11
I have two Pages documents.

Document 1 - some text.
Document 2 - a text which is in the form of a long list.

(NB: This is not a bibliography, more like an index.)

I wish to place hyperlinks to text line "Item n" where n is the number
of the linked item in document 2. So, that when document 2 changes, n
is dynamically updated in document 1. Is such a thing possible ?

The items in document 2 are not in any standard format beyond the fact
that they are listed in a numbered list. They can be references, free
flowing text, anything.

From: Geico Caveman on 7 Mar 2010 03:49
On 2010-03-06 23:25:50 -0700, Michael Vilain <vilain(a)NOspamcop.net> said:

> In article <2010030617110816807-spammersgohere(a)spaminvalid>,
> Geico Caveman <spammers-go-here(a)spam.invalid> wrote:
>
>> I have two Pages documents.
>>
>> Document 1 - some text.
>> Document 2 - a text which is in the form of a long list.
>>
>> (NB: This is not a bibliography, more like an index.)
>>
>> I wish to place hyperlinks to text line "Item n" where n is the number
>> of the linked item in document 2. So, that when document 2 changes, n
>> is dynamically updated in document 1. Is such a thing possible ?
>>
>> The items in document 2 are not in any standard format beyond the fact
>> that they are listed in a numbered list. They can be references, free
>> flowing text, anything.
>
> Hyperlinks refer to web pages, not self-contained documents. The
> closest thing that could do that was Word, which allowed for chaining of
> documents. That way you could create a book of chapters chaining one to
> the other. Table of Contents and Index would scan all the documents to
> create a multi-document TOC and Index.
>
> AFAIK, Pages can't do this. So rethink your approach.

Thanks for the response.

Would merging the two documents help ? (I am concerned about the
updating of n in the text above).

I can always split the pdfs into two at the end (achieving the same effect).

From: Steve Hix on 8 Mar 2010 00:40
In article <vilain-4E9695.21022007032010(a)news.individual.net>,
Michael Vilain <vilain(a)NOspamcop.net> wrote:

> Nope. Again, links refer to WEBPAGES, not Pages pages. You can't point
> to Page 3 with a link. It doesn't work that way. Rethink your approach
> or use another tool. Framemaker could do this but doesn't run on MacOS
> X.

Well, you could run it on a PPC Mac running Tiger. Adobe had years to
move it from Classic, but noooooooooooooo...

Adobe delenda est
From: Geico Caveman on 8 Mar 2010 12:35
On 2010-03-07 22:02:20 -0700, Michael Vilain <vilain(a)NOspamcop.net> said:

> In article <2010030701495075249-spammersgohere(a)spaminvalid>,
> Geico Caveman <spammers-go-here(a)spam.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-03-06 23:25:50 -0700, Michael Vilain <vilain(a)NOspamcop.net> said:
>>
>>> In article <2010030617110816807-spammersgohere(a)spaminvalid>,
>>> Geico Caveman <spammers-go-here(a)spam.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have two Pages documents.
>>>>
>>>> Document 1 - some text.
>>>> Document 2 - a text which is in the form of a long list.
>>>>
>>>> (NB: This is not a bibliography, more like an index.)
>>>>
>>>> I wish to place hyperlinks to text line "Item n" where n is the number
>>>> of the linked item in document 2. So, that when document 2 changes, n
>>>> is dynamically updated in document 1. Is such a thing possible ?
>>>>
>>>> The items in document 2 are not in any standard format beyond the fact
>>>> that they are listed in a numbered list. They can be references, free
>>>> flowing text, anything.
>>>
>>> Hyperlinks refer to web pages, not self-contained documents. The
>>> closest thing that could do that was Word, which allowed for chaining of
>>> documents. That way you could create a book of chapters chaining one to
>>> the other. Table of Contents and Index would scan all the documents to
>>> create a multi-document TOC and Index.
>>>
>>> AFAIK, Pages can't do this. So rethink your approach.
>>
>> Thanks for the response.
>>
>> Would merging the two documents help ? (I am concerned about the
>> updating of n in the text above).
>>
>> I can always split the pdfs into two at the end (achieving the same effect).
>
> Nope. Again, links refer to WEBPAGES, not Pages pages. You can't point
> to Page 3 with a link. It doesn't work that way. Rethink your approach
> or use another tool. Framemaker could do this but doesn't run on MacOS
> X. Or publish your document on the web instead of with Pages.
>
> Again, links point to WEBPAGES, not Pages pages.

Basically, I realized what I wanted was cross-references to a numbered list.

To my shock and dismay (Pages looks like such a polished
wordprocessor), Pages has no concept of cross-references (or Figure
captions). I am using iWork'09 with the latest updates.

I exported my document to Word, and Word for mac happily did what I
wanted. Guess I am stuck with Word for this one.

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