Re: Using index entry text as a link in a Mif2Htm conversion

["Jeremy H. Griffith" <jeremy@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:53:59 -0500, "Peter Desjardins" 
<pdesjardins@oakgroup.com> wrote:

>Can Mif2Go convert a Framemaker index to HTML using 
>the index entry as the link instead of a graphic to 
>replace the page numbers?

Sure.  We don't recommend that because if any entry 
ever applies to more than one topic, you'd lose all 
but the first link.

>The index has only one destination per entry so I 
>would prefer that the entry text itself be the link.

If you are certain this will always be the case, just
use the normal procedure in the User's Guide, par. 8.9.1.3,
"Replacing index page numbers", but put something that
is not visible in place of the symbol or <img> tag:

 [HtmlStyleCodeReplace]
 IXpgnum=&nbsp;

And use:

 [HtmlStyles]
 Level?IX=ParaLink
 IXpgnum=CodeReplace KeepLink

This uses a feature meant for TOCs, ParaLink, which
specifies that the entire para should be the hotspot
for any link in it, regardless of char format usage.
The "?" in Level?IX is a wildcard that makes the
setting apply to all level numbers.  That should
do it.

If you have any problems with this, send us the .fm
index file and your .ini and .htm in a .zip, and we'll 
look into it further.  HTH!

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  (jeremy@omsys.com)  http://www.omsys.com/

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