[Framers] Basic question: hyperlinks to paragraphs

[Shmuel Wolfson]

Can't you just write "this is explained in the discussion of cat 
problems (page xx)"?

On 27-Oct-20 12:27 PM, Bertrand Meyer wrote:
> 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,
>
> -- BM
>
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> From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:srickaby at wordmongers.com]
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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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