Italics dropping out of TOC

[Stuart Rogers]

William Abernathy wrote:
> I got no response to the below post. Is this such a well-known 
> FrameMaker bug that it merits no response? Did I get you all on a bad 
> day? Or am I just being a dunce?
> 
> Don't answer that last one.

(d) Both (a) and (b).

As I understand it, William, this is not a bug; FM is working as 
designed.  Formatting overrides are not carried over to generated files, 
so your CTRL-I has no effect in the TOC.

Character tags *are* carried over to generated files, so your italic tag 
does appear in the TOC.  The method FM uses to delimit hyperlinks is to 
look for a change of tag.  So your link ends when the character tag starts.

Perhaps someone else can offer a work-around; I don't know the answer 
myself.  Perhaps the use of an italicized variable??  Framescript??

Good luck,
s.



> 
> --W
> 
> William Abernathy wrote:
>> I assume there is some very important reason for the following behavior.
>>
>> [Frame 7.2, WinXP, Unstructured]
>>
>> When I italicize a chapter or section heading using the CTRL-I, the 
>> generated TOC file does not retain the formatting, but maintains the 
>> cross-reference all the way to the end of the line. Hence:
>>
>> 4.1 Heading with /Italic/ Text
>>
>> renders as:
>>
>> 4.1 Heading with Italic Text.......22
>>
>> in the TOC, with the whole line linking to the heading on p. 22, but 
>> the word Italic now rendered in roman.
>>
>> If, on the other hand, I use an Italic (Emphasis) character format, I 
>> get the formatting in the generated TOC, but the link breaks at the 
>> tag boundary. The generated TOC line thus appears as:
>>
>> 4.1 Heading with /Italic/ Text........22
>>
>> However, the link breaks at the boundary between "with" and "Italic."
>>
>> It there any way around this? Call me a dreamer, but I really want the 
>> formatting to come through *and* the link not to be broken when I 
>> generate a TOC.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> --William Abernathy

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