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
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