Trouble with hypertext link

[Fred Ridder]

Richard beat me to the punch with his excellent elaboration on the way Hypertext links are designed to work. But I would like to add some further elaboration on two fairly minor points.
 
First, the determination of the beginning and end of the active area for a hyperlink (the "hot spot") is entorely done by FrameMaker. This information is part of what is contained in the "Acrobat data" (as in the "Generate Acrobat data" option in the FrameMaker Print dialog) that FrameMaker passes to Acrobat.
 
Second, it is not necessary for the character tag that is used to delimit the hyperlink hot spot to actually change the format;.the tag itself is enough. In other words, you can define a character tag that sets all the formatting to As Is and it will still work for hyperlinks. But as Richard notes, it is usually desirable to signal to the reader that hyperlinks actually exists at specified points in the text. 
 
-Fred Ridder
 

> From: richard.combs at Polycom.com
> To: TPann at telecomsys.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:30:42 -0700
> Subject: RE: Trouble with hypertext link
> 
> Tim Pann wrote: 
> Is anyone a good resource to help me understand the rather odd manner
> > that Frame 9 does hypertext links?
> > I'm trying to put make a hypertext link from a phrase that's a subset
> > of an entire line, but Frame treats the entire line as hypertext. I'm
> > wondering if there's a "stop" marker I should be adding?
> 
> To elaborate a little on what Steve said: 
> 
> You don't make a hypertext link from a phrase. You insert a hypertext marker at a specific text location (if you have a text range selected, IIRC, the marker is inserted at the beginning of the range). If you work with symbols turned on (you should), you'll see the marker. FM extends the hotspot in both directions from the marker to the next char format change or, if none, to the end of the pgf. It's been this way since probably FM 3 or so. 
> 
> In general, you probably want your readers to _recognize_ a link, right? So you should apply a char tag that formats the text you want to use as the hotspot -- typically either blue or blue underlined. 
> 
> Best practice, IMO: Select the hotspot text and apply your Link (or whatever you call it) char tag. (The selected text remains selected.) Then go to Special > Hypertext and create the hypertext marker.
> 
> By separating the creation of the hypertext command (the marker) from the designation of the hotspot to which it applies, FM gives you greater control. If later, you decide to extend (or shrink, or rephrase) the hotspot text, you can do so without messing with the hypertext marker. 
> 
> HTH!
> 
> Richard G. Combs
> Senior Technical Writer
> Polycom, Inc.
> richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
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