Embedding URLs in FrameMaker and HTML documents

The Portable HTML Standard Edition template provides two ways of embedding URLs in your FrameMaker and HTML documents. The approach you choose depends on whether the complete URL is available in the text of your document or not.

If the URL is in the text of the document

If you have a URL listed in your document and want to make it "live" in the generated HTML (but not in the FrameMaker file or a PDF file generated from the FrameMaker file), you can use the WebJump character style. Here's how:

1. In your FrameMaker documents, create a unique character tag (you could call it WebJump). This character tag does not need any formatting; you can set all of its properties to As Is. The tag identifies URLs that need to be converted.
2. Apply the new character style to the URLs in the text in your FrameMaker documents. For example, apply it to http://www.quadralay.com. (But make sure that you do not apply it to the period at the end of that sentence, or the period will be part of the hyperlink.)
3. Save your FrameMaker document and regenerate your WebWorks Publisher Standard Edition project.
4. The new character tag (WebJump) is now listed in your character mappings. It should automap to the WebWorks Publisher Standard Edition WebJump style, but check this and map it if necessary.
5. If your character tag name did not automap, regenerate the project.

If the URL is not in the text (or if you want it to be a link in FrameMaker)

To make the URL a link in both your FrameMaker and generated HTML files, you set up the URL with a FrameMaker hypertext marker. Here's how:

1. Apply a character tag to the text that you want to make into the hyperlink. You can use any character tag (except for the one you mapped to WebJump). If you do not apply a character tag, the entire paragraph will become a hyperlink.
2. Click somewhere inside the tagged area. This is where you will insert the hypertext marker.
3. Select Special » Hypertext to display the Hypertext dialog box.
4. Create a hypertext marker with the following content:

 message URL http://www.yourURLhere.com

5. Click the New Hypertext Marker button.

The Portable HTML Standard Edition template is set up to automatically handle these types of markers.

How cross-references and hypertext markers are converted

In the Portable HTML Standard Edition template, all FrameMaker cross-references and hypertext markers are automatically converted into HTML hypertext. No mapping is required.

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