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### 29.3.2 Understanding when to remap marker types

Use [Markers] primarily to make new marker types from existing markers, and to clone the new markers. You might need to do this if you are making extracurricular use of FrameMaker Index markers, because you cannot redefine Index marker properties. See §14.8 Converting index entries to generic XML.

For example, to add all FrameMaker Subject markers to the index, and also make clones of the remapped markers as new marker type ALinkRef:

[Markers]

Subject = Index ALinkRef

For another example, to remap context-sensitive help targets identified with TopicAlias markers to hypertext newlink markers:

[Markers]

TopicAlias = newlink

Note: This mapping is no longer required for context-sensitive help. Do not use it in conversions to DITA XML, or the CSH targets will be omitted from output; see §15.14 Including CSH targets in DITA XML.

Because many marker types have special purposes or require specific content, be careful about remapping to custom marker types. For example, do not try to remap to attribute markers used for WAI support; see §25.1.3 Creating custom markers for WAI attributes and §A WAI marker library for HTML.