[Framers] Basic question: hyperlinks to paragraphs

[Bertrand Meyer]

Actually my problem is not exactly this. I am happy with link targets being
paragraphs. (They already are.) My problem is the link sources: I don't want
them to be in a "cross-reference format" in the FrameMaker sense, whose
displayed text is deduced from the target (e.g. "section 4.5"); they have to
be arbitrary text.

Thanks,

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Subject: Re: [Framers] Basic question: hyperlinks to paragraphs

>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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