Deirdre Reagan wrote: >I tested this out. In my TOC, all my Chapter Titles have the little > white box in front of them, and all my chapter subsections (1., a., > etc) have a T in front of them. All work as hyperlinks. > > In the actual chapter, the Chapter Title with a T or a little white > box in front of it doesn't not work as a hyperlink. > > All TOC hyperlinks connected to all chapters, regardless of whether > the chapter had a symbol. > > None of the chapters with the symbol hyperlinked to anywhere. > > So I'm left with the question -- why are these symbols appearing at > the begining of some of my chapter titles, in the actual chapter. > > I'd like to delete the symbols out of the Chapter Title in the actual > chapters (not from the TOC) and see what happens, but so far I've been > unsuccessful in finding any way to delete them.
The T symbols you keep referring to are the on-screen display of FrameMaker's markers. The thing you have to realize is that there are many different types of markers, each of which are used in very different ways for different purposes. Some markers (Index markers) contain the text of index entries. Some markers (Hypertext markers) contain hypertext commands. Some markers (Cross-reference markers) identify the "target" of a cross-reference. Some markers encapsulate chunks of content that have conditionalized with a condition tag that is set to be hidden. But the point is that markers don't just appear for no reason. They only exist because you explicitly created them (e.g. for an index entry) or because you used some feature that is implemented via markers. The whole point of this explanation is to say that you should *NEVER* delete a marker unless you know exactly why it exists and are completely certain that it is no longer needed. If you go around deleting markers just because you don't understand what they are there for, you will be breaking some feature of the document that you probably want to keep. The most common example of this is breaking cross-references by deleting the target markers. The problem is that it can be difficult to examine markers because they are zero-width characters (so that they don't upset line lengths and pagination when they are dislayed) and you can have several (or even dozens of them) stacked up in one spot. If you select the whole stack, the Marker dialog only displays the properties of the topmost marker, and selecting only an individual marker is difficult. You can see if there are multiple markers in one location by observing how the insertion point moves when you use the forward or back cursor key to move over the marker(s). If it takes multiple strokes of the cursor key to move over the on-screen marker symbol (i.e. from the following text to the preceding text or vice versa), there is a stack of two or more markers in that spot. If you're careful, you can use the Shift key along with the cursor keys to select the individual markers, but the easier approach may be to temporarily insert spaces between the markers to spread them out on the line and make them individually selectable. Anyway, in your particualr situation, the markers in the TOC are most likely hypertext markers to link the entries to the corresponting headings in the book; these markers are regenerated each time you generate or update the TOC; you'll only be able to delete them (thereby destroying the hyperlinking of the TOC) temporarily. The markers in the heading paragraphs are most likely to be some combination of index markers and cross-reference markers. If they are the former, deleting them will destroy index entries; if they are the latter, deleting them will create unresolved cross-references. -FR