Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: ulinks in footnotes

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Mark Derricutt <mark@talios.com> was heard to say:
| From what I can see, the generated index sgm file is using ULINKs, I
| can turn off that option in my stylesheet but then its off for the
| whole document.

So, for example, the linking is being done like this:

  <section id="foo"><title>...</title>
  ...
  <para>See <ulink url="#foo">this section</ulink>...</para>
  </section>

If so, I think the root cause of your problem is mistagging. The
"proper" (there's nothing precisely improper about what I've shown above,
it's just not going to do the right thing sometimes) tagging for this
would be:

  <section id="foo"><title>...</title>
  ...
  <para>See <link linkend="foo">this section</link>...</para>
  </section>

ULink should only be used to link to "external" resources:

  <section id="foo"><title>...</title>
  ...
  <para>See <ulink url"http://nwalsh.com/">norm's web site</ulink>
  for more useless information.</para>
  </section>

Read the reference pages on ULink, Link, and XRef for more details.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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