For a current project, I have 30 FM books that are converted to PDFs and then used to create a merged OLH system in ePub. There are links scattered throughout every file in every book that are inter-book links that are converted and maintained in the PDFs. I have two paragraph tags called FileName_PDF and FileName_OLH. These tags have an autonumber format set to the name of the PDF file and the OLH TOC entry accordingly, for example, Objects. PDF and Objects, and the character tag is set to White. I place these tags immediately after the ChapterTitle tag on the first page of very chapter/file in a book. Because they are white, the values do not show/are not visible in the chapter/file.
In the text of files, for an inter-book, x-ref, I use two formats, w/ the format that uses the FileName_PDF conditionalized to Print_Only and the format that uses the FileName_OLH set to OLH_Only. These links are set to the following format: <Link>"<$paratext>" in <$paranum[FileName_PDF]>. <Link>"<$paratext>" in <$paranum[FileName_OLH]>. That way, in the PDF, the user will see something such as: For more information, see "Blah" in Objects.PDF, while in the OLH, the user will see something such as: For more information, see "Blah" in Objects. If the x-ref is to a Heading1, Heading2, Heading3, etc. tag, then the text is displayed as expected in the example above; however, if the x-ref is to a ChapterTitle, then I get only this: For more information, see "Blah" in < > and no matter what, the FileName_PDF value or the FileName_OLH value will not populate/be displayed, which makes no sense as these values are indeed in the chapter. I thought it had something to do w/ the fact that I was requesting to link just to paratext and so I even set up a test x-ref format like this: <Link>Chapter <$chapnum>, "<$paratext>," in <$paranum[FileName_PDF]>, but again, no joy. I am totally stumped. Why on earth would referencing a ChapterTitle paragraph prevent an autonumber value from being displayed in an x-ref? I must absolutely be able to reference a chapter title in this type of x-ref. Any and all thoughts are sincerely appreciated. TIA, TVB Tammy Van Boening Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com www.spectrumwritingllc.com _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
