As Winfried said, there's no way to do this in FrameMaker, although someone like Rick might be able to script it for you.
The closest you can get without a script is, I think, to use the Glossary Term / Glossary Definition markers described by Matt Sullivan ( https://techcommtools.com/by-request-framemaker-glossary-and-glossaryterm-markers/), but it's still going to be a manual process. On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 8:18 AM Bertrand Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > No. Let me explain. This is the text of a language standard (the previous > version is an ISO standard, International Standards Organization). It is > written very rigorously. (It is the result of many years of laborious > effort by many people.) See > https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-367.htm. > Some words have their ordinary meanings and others have meanings introduced > with a rigorous definition in the standard itself. In the previous version, > such words are underlined. For example, a sentence such as > > This particular beast might be a *cat* or it might be a *dog* or > it might be an *unclassified* beast. > > (I have the impression that the remailer removes underlining so I am using > asterisks, as in *underlined_word*, instead.) The example sentence uses > underlining to expressthat the underlined notions, "cat", "dog" and > "unclassified", have a formal definition somewhere in the text. > > Quite understandably, people have started to ask that all such underlined > elements should be links to the corresponding definitions. (Otherwise, the > reader has to run searches all the time.) > > This kind of thing is needed for any normative text of that kind, which > includes precise definitions. > > In FrameMaker terms, all the definitions are in paragraphs of one specific > type (format in FrameMaker terminology), so the obvious thing to do from > the writer's perspective would be to be able to select the target from a > list of paragraphs of that type, as with cross-references. But > cross-references don't work since they impose a format based on the target, > not the source. > > -- BM > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shmuel Wolfson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 12:55 > To: [email protected]; An email list for people using Adobe > FrameMaker software. <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Framers] Basic question: hyperlinks to paragraphs > > Can't you just write "this is explained in the discussion of cat problems > (page xx)"? > > On 27-Oct-20 12:27 PM, Bertrand Meyer wrote: > > 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:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:03 > > To: [email protected]; An email list for people using Adobe > > FrameMaker software. <[email protected]> > > 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 [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] > > _______________________________________________ > > 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] > -- Lin Sims _______________________________________________ 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]
