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### 9.6.1 Creating hypertext jumps to other CHM files

If you are using newlinks and gotolinks to link to HTML files created from a different FrameMaker document and compiled into a different .chm, you must specify how the CHM files are mapped; see §9.15.1 Interlinking multiple CHM files. Then Mif2Go can generate the proper jump reference for you.

Opening topic of first file

To jump to the opening topic of another CHM file, the simplest method is to insert in your document a FrameMaker hypertext marker with the following marker content:

message URL someother.chm

If someother.chm is not registered in the Windows registry, also include the path, possibly relative. (For commercial use, it is best to register .chms in the Windows registry during installation.)

Opening topic of any file

To jump to a file that is within someother.chm, add the name of the target file to the marker content; for example, to get to the “a” anchor inside letters.htm in someother.chm:

message URL someother.chm::/letters.htm#a

Specific topic

To jump to a specific topic in someother.chm, when the topic comes from a FrameMaker file that is being split (so you do not know the .htm file name ahead of time), insert a regular FrameMaker cross reference. Run the Mif2Go conversion to someother.chm first, then copy the .ref file for someother.chm into your conversion project directory, and add this setting to the configuration file:

[ChmFiles]

letters=someother

For links to non-CHM files, see §9.6.3 Linking to external files from compiled HTML Help.