Understanding the Portable HTML Standard Edition Template

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Using character styles


FrameMaker's character tags are mapped to WebWorks Publisher Standard Edition character styles.

In general, mapping your FrameMaker character styles to Default will preserve the highlighting in your FrameMaker files. Bold type, italic type, and so on, will be displayed in your HTML output.

If you used a character format to highlight URLs in your FrameMaker documents, use WebJump instead of Default.

Default character style

The results of the Default character style depend on the properties of the character tag. The Default tag checks the properties of the tagged text and attempts to match those settings in the HTML output. For example, if the FrameMaker character tag Blue (which sets the color to blue) is mapped to the Default, the resulting output would match the output generated by FrameMaker (that is, the color would be blue). The Default style checks the color, font size, and font of the original style and includes those properties in the output HTML.

Note: Even if the font is specified in the HTML, it won't be displayed for an end users unless users have the specified font installed on their system.

WebJump

The WebJump character has the following definition:

 <a href="$DATA;">$DATA;</a>

If you tag URLs in your text with WebJump, they will become hyperlinks. For example, the URL in the following text is tagged with WebJump:

 Visit us at http://www.quadralay.com.

The resulting HTML output would look like this:

 Visit us at <a href="http://www.quadralay.com">http://
www.quadralay.com.</a>

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