RE: Calling an External App

2006-09-18 Thread Charles Beck
Hi Ron, I think maybe we'd need a bit more info. But the short answer is yes, you can do this. Now, for the basic how: 1. Format the text for the link using an appropriate character format. (We use a "Hypertext" character format that displays the link text as underlined blue.) 2. Place

RE: Calling an External App

2006-09-18 Thread Zoe Lawson
Use a hypertext marker in FrameMaker. 1. Make your link, e.g. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I've found you HAVE to use some sort of character tag on a hypertext marker, otherwise the entire paragraph becomes a link) 2. Select the text of your link and add a hypertext marker as follows: message URL

Re: Calling an External App

2006-09-18 Thread Art Campbell
In FM, embed a hypertext link saying: message URL mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Because you have no way of knowing what the default ap is, this basic string probably won't work on ALL systems because of the way different browsers and OSs invoke the mail client. Probably works on most systems most of