I must be missing something here, or misunderstanding what you are trying to do. A cross-reference is a hyperlink. If you are using a specific paragraph tag for your target, why not just use a cross-reference?
Or you could use Glossary markers. Matt Sullivan has a good section explaining how to set up Glossary Terms and Glossary Definitions (marker types you'd have to create) in his FrameMaker Working with Content book ( https://techcommtools.com/books/). That one is for 2017, but he's putting out one for 2020 soon. On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 1:40 PM Bertrand Meyer <bertrand.me...@inf.ethz.ch> wrote: > This is a novice question. In fact I am not a novice as I have been using > FrameMaker extensively for many years, but I have not used intra-document > hyperlinks so far, jut cross-references (lots and lots of them). > > > > What I want to do now is simple to state: have text of the form > > > > Blah blah this is some text and that is a pointer to some > other part of the text > > > > where pointer (using a specific character format, in this case causing > underlining) is a hyperlink or equivalent so that in the generated PDF > clicking it will go to some designated target place in the text. > > > > I am used to cross-references, as in > > > > ... This was discussed in section 4.5, page 67, of the > previous chapter ... > > > > but they only make it possible to have a source that is a reference format; > as far as I know they do not make it possible to have as source of the > hyperlink an arbitrary word, such as "pointer" above. > > > > I also know how to create a hyperlink, putting a "gotolink XXX" Hypertext > marker under pointer (the source location) and another of the form "newlink > XXX" at the target location. > > > > But this is horrible because I need to invent a new label ("XXX") for every > single target, and insert "newlink XXX" at the corresponding place. I have > -- literally -- thousands such locations; inserting them would consume > several days of my life, spent in a silly way since there is no conceptual > need for these markers. > > > > (The text, by the way, is the revision of the Eiffel standard of which the > previous version is at > https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-367.htm. If > you look up the text you will see that it has thousands of underlined > elements, e.g. unfolded form in the last bullet item on page 97. They > correspond to concepts defined formally elsewhere in the text. At the > moment > one has to look them up in the index, or perform a search. They should be > hyperlinks! Hence the question.) > > > > The reason it is pointless to have to insert "newlink XXX" all over the > place is that since the hyperlinks always go to tart paragraphs of specific > types ("formats"). (I fanatically use FrameMaker paragraph-typing > mechanisms.) I just want to link to a specific paragraph of a specific > type, > choosing it from the automatically list, as I do with cross-references. > > > > Is there a way to do this? > > > > I am using FrameMaker 2015, although I will soon update to the latest > version. > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions and best regards, > > > > -- Bertrand Meyer > > > > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com > 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 listad...@frameusers.com > -- Lin Sims _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com 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 listad...@frameusers.com