Bad URL, Bad, Bad, Bad URL!

[Karen Robbins]

Thanks, Rick! As usual, I had no clue. Plus, Frame makes it so simple 
to just select the text and make the marker, and it defaults the 
marker's position to the beginning.

Regards,
Karen

At 2:51 PM -0400 6/24/11, Rick Quatro wrote:
>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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