[Framers] Basic question: hyperlinks to paragraphs

[Steve Rickaby]

>Thanks for the comments. A cross-references forces me to use a
>cross-reference format for the link, e.g. "section 4.5". I cannot use a
>reference format, I want to use an arbitrary text for the linking text, as
>in "this is explained in the discussion of cat problems", where the
>underlined text (I hope the mailing list mailer keeps the underline) is my
>own text but a link to some chosen place.
>
>Hyperlinks to this but force me in each case to add two commands, a gotolink
>at the source and a newlink at the target, which is horrendously tedious if
>one has thousands such cases. The newlink is not conceptually necessary
>since all the targets are paragraphs so I should be able simply to choose
>from a paragraph list as with cross-references.

>From memory I used to use the double-link method for this, but I never needed to do it very often. I appreciate your problem. AFAIK you are stymied by FrameMaker's internal model, which only allows xrefs to named styles, i.e. at the paragraph level, rather than to specific runs of text such as a sentence. If there's a way to do this that doesn't involve a double-link process, I'd be interested to hear of it, even though I seldom use FrameMaker these days.

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