Converting FrameMaker Marker tags with Acrobat

[Stuart Rogers]

Denise L. Moss-Fritch wrote:
> We have run into a problem with Acrobat (v8.x) converting only part of
> FrameMaker (v7 and 8) Hypertext tags. Our company uses a text insert for
> support information. In that text insert is a list of several email
> addresses for support of various products. A Hypertext tag was inserted for
> each email address to convert those addresses in Acrobat so the addresses
> are active links.
> 
>  
> 
> The Hypertext dialog in FrameMaker identifies Message Client as the Command,
> with message url <email address> as the Syntax message clientname
> parameters. All email addresses that are single words before @ convert fine.
> However, those email addresses that use support-<product>@ drop the support-
> portion of the address.
> 
>  
> 
> How can we include the support- portion of the address when converting to
> Acrobat Thanks.
> 

Try using %2D in place of the hyphen (the same way you would use %20 to 
indicate a space in a URL).

HTH,

-- 
Stuart Rogers
Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
Toronto, ON, Canada
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325

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