Bad URL, Bad, Bad, Bad URL!

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Karen,

You have to make sure the character format is applied to the marker, as well
as the text. The way you can tell is to press the Control+Alt key and hover
your mouse over the text. If you don't see the pointy finger cursor, then
move the mouse to the left over the marker. If the pointy finger cursor
shows then, that means the character format is not applied to the marker.

One way to make this less of a problem is to put the marker one or two
characters into the URL text. That way, when you select the URL to apply the
character format, you are sure to get the marker included in the selection.

If you have a lot of these, I can provide a script that will make sure that
the character formats are correctly applied to the markers and text. Please
contact me offlist if you are interested. Please let me know if you have any
questions or comments. Thank you very much.

Rick

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-659-8267
rick at frameexpert.com




-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Karen Robbins
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 2:19 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Bad URL, Bad, Bad, Bad URL!

Hi Framers,

Despite my best efforts, URL links keep getting messed up on export 
from Frame to HTML. I have a character format for URLs, and dutifully 
apply it to the appropriate text. Yet when I attempt to use these 
same files again (say for the next year's edition), a huge number of 
the URLs show up as unlinked. Often some text in front of the URL or 
following it is linked instead. I know the character format is 
applied because it is NOT the entire paragraph that gets linked. But 
somehow the URL character format tags are moving. Sometimes others 
have worked on these files, and sometimes not. Many of these examples 
occur on text that I know I've corrected and has not--or at least 
should not have--been touched since. It doesn't happen to all URLs, 
just some.

Fixing them over and over again takes way too long. What can I do to 
stop this from happening?

Thanks,
Karen

P.S. No URLs were harmed in the writing of this message. ;-)
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