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Martha Silverspring wrote:
> Question for the Experts: How do you place a link to an email
> address in a FrameMaker doc (that will become a .PDF)?
> I tried the usual "Special > Hypertext > Message Client and
> typed the address but of course, it didn't work. I have looked
> through the manual, but I couldn't find anything.
This information is in chapter 19 of the FrameMaker 5.5 manual, "HTML
and PDF Conversion" but you have to know what "mailto" URLs are.
The hypertext command you want is "message URL mailto:foo -at- bar -dot- com".
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Elliott C. "Eeyore" Evans eeyore+ -at- cmu -dot- edu
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