18.4 Creating jumps to particular windows for HTML
You can assign a particular window type as a jump destination. A window assignment can specify jumps the following ways:
• all jumps from a character or paragraph format
• all jumps to a particular file or URL
• individual jumps to a particular window.
A window assignment supplies a value for the target attribute of the <a href=...> tag Mif2Go generates for the jump. If you are using framesets that value must be the name of a frame (see §12.12 Using framesets), possibly one of several names reserved by JavaScript, such as _top or _blank:
• A jump to _top gets you out of a frameset; it does not open a new window.
• A jump to _blank always opens a new window.
A jump to a window with a non-reserved name, if the window is not in the current frameset (if any), opens a window of that name; and the next jump to the same name reuses that same window.
You can use a character format to mark all jumps to a particular window type. For example:
; doc format = name of frame to use for jumps from within this style
; For OmniHelp ALink and KLink jumps, targets make no sense
If you know that such jumps always occur in a particular type of paragraph, such as Step paragraphs in procedures, you could use a paragraph format. For example:
Specify window by jump destination
If you know that all jumps to a particular HTML page (such as glossary.htm) should go to a particular window type, you can specify the window to use for that page. For example:
; filename (no ext) or URL destination = target frame to be used
; a URL destination is the last element in the URL (no extension)
If you need case-by-case handling of jumps to other windows, put a marker of type LinkTarget (see §28.2 Adding custom marker types), with marker content the name of the window, anywhere before the relevant hypertext jump marker.
§6.7 Jumping to secondary windows in Help systems
§6.8 Creating pop-up topics for Help systems
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