Omni Systems, Inc. Mif2Go User's Guide, Version 55

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### 7.6.6 Creating target-and-jump ALinks for HTML-based Help

You can insert ALink information in FrameMaker that serves as both an ALink-list target and an ALink jump, so that all ALink instances with the same keyword belong to a “pool” of ALinks; clicking any one of them displays a list of links to all other topics that have the same keyword.

OmniHelp

For OmniHelp, just inserting ALink keyword markers has this effect. Whenever the OmniHelp navigation control is set to Related, if the currently displayed topic contains an ALink keyword marker, the navigation pane displays a list of links to all other topics that contain ALink markers with the same keyword.

HTML Help, Oracle Help for Java

For HTML Help or Oracle Help for Java, you use a paragraph format to specify ALink keywords, and supply macro code to surround the paragraph for the ALink jump. When you assemble ALink jumps using macros, you are not making use of any Mif2Go code to interpret the alink protocol; whatever you build is passed through to the Help system, unaltered.

HTML Help

For HTML Help, the ALink jump code can produce a button; see §9.7.4 Rolling your own macros for ALink jumps in HTML Help.

Oracle Help for Java

For Oracle Help for Java, the ALink jump code creates a hotspot; see§11.10 Creating ALinks for Oracle Help.