Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

115.0. "No hot spot for <reference>" by DSSDEV::EPPES (I&#039;m not making this up, you know) Wed Apr 12 1989 17:42

    I can't get a figure reference to have a hot spot, and I can't figure
    out why.  I don't have any weird coding (I don't think), and other
    figure references (as well as table and example ones) do have hot spots,
    as well as another reference to this particular figure.  Here's the
    relevant part of the source code:

<head2>(Using Keys in FDE Menus\fde_key_sec)
<X>(Form Development Environment <XS>Main Menu)
<p>
When you invoke the FDE, it displays a Main Menu as shown
in <REFERENCE>(main_menu_fig).  <comment>(*** this is the reference that
doesn't get "hot spotted"***)

<FIGURE>(FDE Main Menu\main_menu_fig)
<figure_attributes>(keep)
<comment>(this file was generated by UTOX)
<figure_file>(ps\ps_figsdir:4804fde_main_menu_screen.sdml-post\14.8)
<figure_file>(ln03\ln03_figsdir:fde_main_menu_screen.sdml-sixel\14.8)
<figure_file>(line_printer\SPACE\14.8)
<figure_file>(bookreader\onlinedir:fde_main_menu_screen.sdml-bin\29.8)
<ENDFIGURE>
<cp>
The Main Menu displays a list of FDE functions.  You select the function you
want by pressing the arrow keys on the keyboard to move to the function and
then pressing the SELECT key or the keypad period key. 

    The log file doesn't show anything unusual.  Are there any known
    conditions that would cause a reference not to have a hot spot?

    If you want pointers to files, just let me know.  This is DOCUMENT V1.1,
    VMS/DECwindows V1.1 (SDC), and latest BL of bookbuilding tools.  Doctype
    is ONLINE.HANDBOOK.
							-- Nina

    I'm having the same problem in another chapter, and the scenario is
    similar:  the <reference> appears just after a <head1> tag and its
    accompanying <p> and <x> tags.  The same figure is referenced later
    in the chapter and that reference has a hot spot.  But the first
    reference is hot-spot-less.
							-- Nina

    Is this by any chance the *first* hotspot in the book? Someone else
    just reported a similar problem with <online_popup>s...
    
    Thanks,
    
    Mary

    RE .2 --

>    Is this by any chance the *first* hotspot in the book? Someone else
>    just reported a similar problem with <online_popup>s...

    In fact, yes, it is!  And it's true for any <reference>, not just figure
    references - at least, it's true for section references as well as figure
    references; I haven't checked tables or examples.

    I have 8 chapters of my book in Bookreader format.  I processed each
    chapter separately and viewed them as individual books (as it were). I
    just checked them all, and in every chapter, the first <reference> item
    (section or figure, in my case) is not hot-spotted.  One of them is an
    <online_popup>, too (which doesn't pop up). 

							-- Nina

    This will be fixed in the next baselevel of the online tools, including
    the T1.2 baselevel promised for early this week. See Note 114.2 for
    more details (it's the same bug).
    
    Mary