Hi, Everyone: To begin with, I ask that some of you might respond directly to this e-mail address, since I have subscribed with three different e-mail addresses to the list (A couple of years ago, I was an active member, receiving digests and trading e-mails easily.) and none of the several addresses, all earthlink.net by the way, have received any e-mail confirmation or other such. Brad has been helpful in subscribing these addresses at his end, but still I have an inbox empty of list digests, though any other activity seems to work fine.
Be that as it may, I will address the FrameMaker problem at hand. And please forgive the ignorance and amateurishness of a retired movie carpenter trying his hand at self publication. Currently, I am attempting to convert a FrameMaker book which I generated successfully as a PDF some years ago, into a single HTML file for submission to Kindle Reader. Though I had some success with Mif2Go in terms of replacing the numbering in the Index and maintaining some of the heading numbering within the text, I abandoned that program because Mif2Go generates multiple htm files, and Kindle wants a single file. Furthermore, it kept dropping cross-reference links, some would work. Some wouldn't. However, FrameMaker's built-in Save As capability produces just what's needed: a single HTML file linked to the numerous graphics, all renamed for the new book. And every single cross reference link (except one in the TOC to the index which I fixed with MSWord) seems to be working. All well and good. Problem is, I can't get FrameMaker to produce exactly the hyper-text book I want. Getting rid of page numbers was easy, remove the pound sign from the master pages. For the TOC, I formatted the building block paragraph tag in the reference pages to white. For the Index, I changed cross reference tag in the references pages to the Symath True Type font, and the results is an intriguing jumble of math symbols which link nicely to various places in the text. BUT, despite my efforts to work the HTML Mapping Tables in the reference pages, only the TOC entries show the heading auto numbers. Within the text, the headings are all numberless. Even though I have identified their numbers in the headings table and made entries into the mapping table with the Use Autonumbering column entries changed from N to Y. Also, all the cross references add the word "See" despite the fact that I removed the word "See" from the Replace With column in the Cross-Ref Macro table. Sorry for this extensive posting. Had I been in contact with the list, I would have shortened it into several such. And thanks to all who take the time to read through this, even if you can't find the time to respond. Last of all, Happy Holidays to each and every one. ~ Don Spencer beamwardpublications at earthlink.net donandjudy1 at earthlink.net setdoordonny at earthink.net
