18.2.5 Replacing problem characters in links

Some characters that are acceptable in FrameMaker hypertext links and cross references cause problems for HTML browsers. These problems are even worse with HTML, which insists on all-lowercase IDs. Mif2Go processes FrameMaker hypertext link and cross-reference markers to ensure acceptable IDs, similar to the way it processes CSS class names (see §21.7.1 Working with CSS class name restrictions).

Spaces

Part of the job is to remove all spaces, possibly replacing them with another character when that is necessary to prevent name clashes. You can set the character used to replace spaces:

[HTMLOptions]

; These alphanumeric chars are used as space replacements in IDs

; if non-alphanumeric, spaces are stripped instead (default)

; XrefSpaceChar = alphanumeric char to use in xref markers

XrefSpaceChar=-

; HyperSpaceChar = alphanumeric char to use in hyperlinks (not URLs)

HyperSpaceChar=-

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