Linking Problem

[Fred Ridder]

As others have noted, the backslash is a reserved character in FrameMaker dialog boxes. There is a whole series of backslash codes defined to allow you to type special characters (i.e., characters that you can't produce directly from the keyboard with only the Shift key as a modifier) in dialogs. If you refer to Appendix B of the FrameMaker User Guide (in PDF form in the Documents directory of your FrameMaker installation) you will see that the substitutions in your hypertext command mostly match the backslash codes:
\D (Shift+d) produces a double dagger, as in your example
\M (Shift+m) is supposed to produce an em-space--no idea why it came through as "sm" in your example
\F (Shift+f) produces a florin, as in your example
\j is not defined and therefore comes through as literal characters, as in your example
 
The trick to get FrameMaker to render a literal backslash is to double it. But that doesn't explain why the doubled backslashes at the start of your pathname came through as doubled backslashes in the result--it should have come through as a single. To get doubled backslashes, you should theoretically have needed to type four in a row.
 
-Fred Ridder

 

> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 15:41:49 -0400
> Subject: Linking Problem
> From: ecidade at zoominternet.net
> 
> Good afternoon
> 
> I’ve been experiencing a tonload of trouble linking to documents in a server where the 
> address contains backslashes “\” and NOT forward slashes “/”
> 
> Problem: whenever I write the syntax to go to the hypertext link?...FrameMaker does funny 
> things to the link itself….
> 
> Example:
> 
> message URL \\jetblue.com\Docs\Manuals\jbdocs\Flight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf
> becomes the following when I click “Edit Hypertext Marker”…..
> message URL \\jetblue.com‡ocs\smanuals\jbdocsƒlight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf
> 
> I think the use of the backslash is causing this….or……is it a bug???
> 
> So I’m trying to use any tool native to FrameMaker to keep the link intact.
> 
> This has been bothering me for a long time and it’s one of the laundry list items I’ve been 
> trying to cure.
> 
> Any assistance would be most appreciated….
> 
> 
> Eduardo F. Cidade, Sr.
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