Active Areas from Frame-Generated Index(es)

[Reng, Dr. Winfried]

Hi,

When you create an index, you will get two types of entries:
Some with a single reference and some with multiple references.

Apple........94
Pear.....95, 97

When there is only a single reference the link area in the resulting
PDF file encompasses the whole paragraph - provided that there is
really no change in the character formatting (page number, separator,
text). The link area does not start at the position of the marker
but extends in both directions of the marker until there is a change
in the character formatting or the paragraph ends. A change in character
formatting could also be a character format with everything set to As Is.
Test it out, e.g.:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/Using/framemaker_9_help.pdf
Or the MML reference in the FrameMaker installation folder (at least for FM 8)

When you have more than one reference, then the first link area
encompasses the text, separator and first page number. The next link
areas encompass only the page number.

Therefore, when your link area encompasses only the page number and not
even the dots, then there is definitely a change in the character 
formatting. Check how the page numbers and the separator (tab with dots) 
are formatted.

Best regards

Winfried

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 6:16 AM
> To: ecidade at zoominternet.net; framers at lists.frameusers.com; 
> dspreadb at yahoo.com
> Subject: RE: Active Areas from Frame-Generated Index(es)
> 
> 
> > Generating the index isn't a problem. It's the resulting 
> PDF....the linking area doesn't 
> > extend to the entire index entry....only the leader dots 
> and page numbering.
> 
> 
> It is normal behavior for the active area in generated 
> indexes to include only the page numbers and the leading 
> punctuation. The reason is that it is completely normal to 
> have a list of multiple page numbers for any given index 
> entry. Whenever you have multiple page references it makes no 
> sense to include the text of the index entry as part of the 
> hotspot for the first page reference, and it makes no sense 
> to have two different behaviors depending on single or 
> multiple references, so the standard behavior is the one 
> that's right for multipel references. This is one of the 
> fundamental differences between a generated list (one entry 
> per occurrence) and a generated index (multiple references per entry).
> 
> If you are generating a special kind of index where no entry 
> ever has more than one page reference, it is possible to move 
> the hypertext marker (or to create a duplicate copy) of each 
> hypertext marker at the beginning of each index entry 
> paragraph so that the active area includes the whole 
> paragraph rather than just the page number. I believe someone 
> has written a script to do this if you have FrameScript on 
> your system. Or else you could generate it as a list rather 
> than an index.
> 
> -Fred Ridder