Thanks, Fred. I'll try it with Unix pathnames.

Actually, it's a link to another drive (N) and then a path down to the file. So 
I've got

N:\Departments\Financial:January2014.fm

Pat

From: Fred Ridder [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 2:01 PM
To: Christenson, Pat; [email protected]
Subject: RE: Using a backslash (\) in Hypertext marker

A few issues here:

First, FrameMaker is actually behaving exactly as designed when you type the 
strings you mention. When you are in the marker window, you are typing in a 
dialog box, and FrameMaker follows the rules that are documented in "Appendix 
A: Typing in dialog boxes" in the FrameMaker manual. The table that in that 
appendix lists the code for typing a double dagger as "\Shift+d", and for a 
florin as "\Shift+f", which is exactly what you've typed.

Second, I assume that you intend \D and \F to be drive identifiers? I don't 
think this will work because I believe that hypertext markers expect Unix-style 
pathnames, not Windows-style.

And since drive letter mappings are local to each machine in the Windows world, 
there's the potential that these drive letters could be mapped differently on 
other users' systems, which would break the links.

-Fred Ridder
________________________________
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Using a backslash (\) in Hypertext marker
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 18:29:54 +0000
I need to create a hypertext marker for Open Document & Fit to Page. The 
problem occurs when I enter the path for the document in the marker window. The 
characters \D are replaced by a double dagger and \F are replaced by the florin 
symbol.

I've looked at Adobe's documentation on hypertext markers and it doesn't 
mention this behavior. Does anyone know how I can get the marker window to 
leave the text exactly as typed?

I'm using Frame 10 on Windows 7 Professional.

Thanks.

Pat Christenson
Resource Coordinator
Fitzgerald Marketing and Communications
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

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