Actually my problem is not exactly this. I am happy with link targets being paragraphs. (They already are.) My problem is the link sources: I don't want them to be in a "cross-reference format" in the FrameMaker sense, whose displayed text is deduced from the target (e.g. "section 4.5"); they have to be arbitrary text.
Thanks, -- BM -----Original Message----- From: Steve Rickaby [mailto:srick...@wordmongers.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:03 To: bertrand.me...@inf.ethz.ch; An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <framers@lists.frameusers.com> Subject: Re: [Framers] Basic question: hyperlinks to paragraphs >Thanks for the comments. A cross-references forces me to use a >cross-reference format for the link, e.g. "section 4.5". I cannot use a >reference format, I want to use an arbitrary text for the linking text, >as in "this is explained in the discussion of cat problems", where the >underlined text (I hope the mailing list mailer keeps the underline) is >my own text but a link to some chosen place. > >Hyperlinks to this but force me in each case to add two commands, a >gotolink at the source and a newlink at the target, which is >horrendously tedious if one has thousands such cases. The newlink is >not conceptually necessary since all the targets are paragraphs so I >should be able simply to choose from a paragraph list as with cross-references. >From memory I used to use the double-link method for this, but I never needed to do it very often. I appreciate your problem. AFAIK you are stymied by FrameMaker's internal model, which only allows xrefs to named styles, i.e. at the paragraph level, rather than to specific runs of text such as a sentence. If there's a way to do this that doesn't involve a double-link process, I'd be interested to hear of it, even though I seldom use FrameMaker these days. -- Baker Steve, aka Steve Rickaby BSc MBCS CITP AMBHI Tel : +44 1 736 810575 Five times World Bread Awards winner: 2015 Silver, 2016 Silver, 2017 Bronze*2, 2019 Silver For more about Real Bread, see <http://www.realbreadcampaign.org> For more about me, see <http://www.linkedin.com/in/steverickaby> For superficial waffle, see <https://www.facebook.com/steve.rickaby.9> _______________________________________________ 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
