Creating bookmarks, more and top links in FM

[Charles Beck]

Hi JG, 

I do not have a totally definitive answer for your questions (I think),
and I wonder if anyone else does either, which may be why you have not
heard anything. 

The short answer is that I do not think it is possible to do the things
you want to do in Frame. Certainly not easily, in any case.

For questions 1 and 2, it *might* be possible--and I strongly stress the
word "might"--to use the HTML Macro marker, which inserts HTML code into
your output document "as is", to do what you want. Be warned though:
Internet Explorer does not easily support statically positioned elements
of any type (Firefox and Opera do much better). So, even if you can get
the desired HTML code in your documents, there is no guarantee they will
work correctly in IE. 

For question 3, the best thing I can suggest (maybe someone else can
offer something better) is to create a cross-reference to the desired
location in the documentation. But I am a little confused as to what you
mean by the term "bookmark" in the context of FrameMaker. Bookmarks make
sense in PDF files, because you have the navigational pane on the left.
They make sense in HTML, because you can use a browser to set and use a
bookmark. But I am not sure how you would want to use a bookmark within
the context of FrameMaker. It doesn't seem to make sense to me. Am I
missing something?

HTH, but afraid it won't,
Chuck Beck


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Subject: RE: Creating bookmarks, more and top links in FM

Hello 

Can someone on the list help?

So far none responded.

Cheers
JG
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Subject: Creating bookmarks, more and top links in FM

Hello

 I use FM 7.0 to create the User Guides and Automap to convert the
guides to HTMLs. Our FM template is mapped with the Automap template. My
queries are:

 1.       How do I create a static H1 heading in FM so that when it is
converted to html the main heading remains in focus while one scrolls
down the page to browse through the contents/sub-headings in the
specific section?

2.       Since some of the sections are very verbose am keen to create a
more..  or Top link to expand/collapse the sub and sub-sub-headings or
to move to the previous section in the file. How do I do this in FM?

3.       How do I create bookmarks in FM files? Am aware that it can be
created in pdfs but not aware as to how it can be done in FM. Not sure
whether it will require a Bookmark plugin to create the same in a FM
file.