Re: Conditional IndexIX tag makes hyperlinks disappear

[Michael Richards <michaelr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ezra Steinberg wrote:
> 
> I was trying to make page locators for index entries disappear in the
> HTML version of my document by making the <$pagenum> entry in the
> IndexIX paragraph tag on the index reference page both conditional and hidden.
> 
> A similar approach worked fine for the TOC. However, when I generated the
> index, I found that only the first index entry was a link back into the
> text (both in the HTML version and the FrameMaker source file).
> 
> Anyone know why this is true? What approach works to hide index page locators
> in the HTML version of a FM document while keeping the entries "hot"?
> 
> Ezra
> P.S. I am on the digest, so please cc me if posting directly to the list.
> 
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You would also find that Framemaker's internal HTML converter doesn't do
the Index properly anyway. But there is a kludge and all works fine, and
here's what you do:

(Acknowledgement: Schlomo Peretz first posted this fix.)

You need to create a dummy character tag which we'll call "dummy" to
make you feel better. It doesn't alter the appearance of the text
(unless you want to). Say that the text of the hot spot is "[0]". you
then alter your IX paragraph text in the "IX" frame of the Referemce
page to:

<dummy>[0]<Default Para Text>

where "Para" is of course the Para glyph (<Control>q <shift>q).

In the HTML Mapping Table insert a line:

C:dummy  FONT N  N

and Voila!


Good Luck.

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