Thanks, Rick! As usual, I had no clue. Plus, Frame makes it so simple to just select the text and make the marker, and it defaults the marker's position to the beginning.
Regards, Karen At 2:51 PM -0400 6/24/11, Rick Quatro wrote: >Hi Karen, > >You have to make sure the character format is applied to the marker, as well >as the text. The way you can tell is to press the Control+Alt key and hover >your mouse over the text. If you don't see the pointy finger cursor, then >move the mouse to the left over the marker. If the pointy finger cursor >shows then, that means the character format is not applied to the marker. > >One way to make this less of a problem is to put the marker one or two >characters into the URL text. That way, when you select the URL to apply the >character format, you are sure to get the marker included in the selection. > >If you have a lot of these, I can provide a script that will make sure that >the character formats are correctly applied to the markers and text. Please >contact me offlist if you are interested. Please let me know if you have any >questions or comments. Thank you very much. > >Rick > >Rick Quatro >Carmen Publishing Inc. >585-659-8267 >rick at frameexpert.com > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com >[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Karen Robbins >Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 2:19 PM >To: framers at lists.frameusers.com >Subject: Bad URL, Bad, Bad, Bad URL! > >Hi Framers, > >Despite my best efforts, URL links keep getting messed up on export >from Frame to HTML. I have a character format for URLs, and dutifully >apply it to the appropriate text. Yet when I attempt to use these >same files again (say for the next year's edition), a huge number of >the URLs show up as unlinked. Often some text in front of the URL or >following it is linked instead. I know the character format is >applied because it is NOT the entire paragraph that gets linked. But >somehow the URL character format tags are moving. Sometimes others >have worked on these files, and sometimes not. Many of these examples >occur on text that I know I've corrected and has not--or at least >should not have--been touched since. It doesn't happen to all URLs, >just some. > >Fixing them over and over again takes way too long. What can I do to >stop this from happening? > >Thanks, >Karen > >P.S. No URLs were harmed in the writing of this message. ;-) >_______________________________________________
