Re: FM+SGML: prefix from EDD not appearing in PDF bookmarks

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Theun Fleer describes this situation:
Element names (e.g., "Mounting") describe the title of a topic. At some 
higher level of structure, there is a choice-type Language attribute. When 
a language is selected in this attribute, the EDD prefix rules for the 
Mounting (and other similar) element produce the word "Mounting" in the 
selected language, which is a pretty nifty way to automate the translation 
of key topic titles.

Another situation where the need for prefixes and suffixes arises is when 
creating EDDs for ATA 2000 DTDs. In this case, the numbers assigned to 
titles (e.g., chapter, section, subject, task, subtask, figure and table 
titles) are a segmented sequence of separate numbers (each segment having a 
different meaning) with each segment from a different attribute in these 
elements. Since some of these number segments are non-sequential, it is 
impossible to implement these numbers by means of autonumbers, hence prefix 
and suffix rules, which pick up and format the associated attribute values 
are the only possible solution.

However, when you generate PDFs for FM+SGML structured documents, and you 
include in the bookmark the names of elements which have prefix and suffix 
rules, those prefixes and suffixes are omitted from the generated 
bookmarks, even though they correctly appear within the body of the PDF 
document. Thus, in Theun Fleer's case, the entire title text (which is in a 
prefix) is missing from the bookmark.

I confirm that this is a bug in FM+SGML 6.0. I do not know whether or not 
the bug was also present in FM+SGML 5.5.6.

One of the main advantages of FM+SGML is its superiority as a print engine 
for generating well-formatted PDFs from structured documents. The ability 
to use prefix and suffix rules in an EDD to solve what otherwise would be 
intractable problems is another huge advantage of FM+SGML. But these 
prefixes and suffixes are used precisely in the kinds of elements whose 
text you want to appear in bookmarks.

Therefore, I classify this FM+SGML 6.0 bug as a major show-stopper, which 
should be fixed immediately (Dov Isaacs, are you listening?)

Schlomo, to you have any tool that gets around this problem?
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