#### 13.6.3 Specifying output formats for related and fixed links

To specify formats for various types of related links:

    [RelatedLinks]
    ; HeadInlineFormat = format for inline heads (Prev, Next, Parent)
    HeadInlineFormat = Strong
    ; HeadBlockFormat = format for list heads (Child, Sib, Related)
    HeadBlockFormat = RelatedHead
    ; TopicTitleFormat = block format for topic title lines (including
    ; those with inline heads)
    TopicTitleFormat = RelatedTopic
    ; ShortdescFormat = block format to use for link description
    ShortdescFormat = RelatedDesc

To specify a format for fixed links to generated lists:

    [RelatedLinks]
    ; AddedLinksFormat = format to use, default RelatedTopic
    AddedLinksFormat = RelatedHead

Configure link formats in the appropriate format configuration file; see §7.2.1 Understanding where to define output formats.

To configure components of fixed-link entries:

    [RelatedLinks]
    ; AddedLinksSpacer = text to put between added links, can include
    ; <U+nnnn/> for symbols, and <br/> for a line break
    AddedLinksSpacer = <spc/><U+2022/><spc/>
    ; AddedLinksStart = text to put before first link, default none
    AddedLinksStart =
    ; AddedLinksEnd = text to put after last link, default none
    AddedLinksEnd =

These settings use format-component processing, so can include any format-component properties except <name/>, which is meaningless in this context. See §8. Configuring format components.

With the default values, if you turn on all fixed-link options, you get a row of links below the related links that looks something like this, where each term is a link to the corresponding generated list:

Contents * Figures * Tables * Glossary * Index

See §13.3 Appending links to topics.

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Parent Topic: 13.6 Formatting links in output

Sibling Topics:

13.6.1 Understanding how DITA2Go presents related links

13.6.2 Labeling related links

13.6.4 Inserting dividers between topics and lists of links