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Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

Title:Online Bookbuilding
Notice:This conference is write-locked: see note 1.3.
Moderator:VAXUUM::UTT
Created:Fri Aug 12 1988
Last Modified:Mon Jul 15 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:440
Total number of notes:2134

131.0. "Registered Trademark in chapter title" by DECWET::OSHEA (Kate O'Shea) Fri May 12 1989 16:02

    
    Hi - I'm working on putting a hardcopy manual online.  I have a chapter
    title with a Registered Trademark symbol.  Although everything compiles 
    just fine, I can't find the footnote text when I display the book online.  

    Here's the source code:



    <chapter>(Using the PostScript<footref>(R) Viewer\postscript_viewer_chap)

    <footnote_text>(R\PostScript<special_char>(registered_symbol)
    is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.)

    <p>
    The PostScript Viewer lets you view formatted PostScript files on your
    workstation screen ....



    The Registered Trademark symbol *does* show up in the chapter title
    but the accompanying text to explain the trademark doesn't show up 
    anywhere.  I moved the mouse with MB1 held down around the R-circle 
    symbol, but nothing popped up, either.  

    Footnotes are not my specialty, so I may have this coded incorrectly.
    Please help me figure out how to get the footnote explanatory text
    displayed; or if it is being displayed, where it's hiding.

    
    Thanks,

    Kate
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131.1DECWET::OSHEAKate O&#039;SheaTue May 16 1989 14:578
    I replaced the "R" in the chapter source code shown in note 131.0 with
    a "1" -- that is, I coded it as if it were a regular footnote
    instead of a registered trademark.  The regular footnote approach
    works.  The superscripted 1 appears in the chapter title when displayed
    online, and the footnote text pops up when you click MB1 on the
    footnote number.
    
    Shouldn't the "R" coding work this way, too?
131.2CLOSET::UTTWed May 17 1989 08:399
    Yes, the R coding should work. I will take a look at it using your
    coding in 130.0. Note 115 and its replies deal with some footnote
    problems -- does your problem seem to be the same? Also, what 
    baselevel of the online bookbuilding tools are you using (what date
    is displayed when you run DOCUMENT for an online book)?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Mary
131.3DECWET::OSHEAKate O&#039;SheaThu May 18 1989 14:4711
    Turns out, the R coding does work!  After reading notes 114 and 115 and
    their replies, I realized that the footnote stuff in the chapter title
    was indeed the first symbol reference...I had commented out the other
    chapters in the profile so I would get a shorter, test run.  Once I
    added back the chapter in front of the one with the registered
    trademark in the chapter title, the R symbol did popup in the online
    display.
    
    By the way, I'm running the March 20, 1989 baselevel.
    
    So thanks, it all does work fine.
131.4DECWET::OSHEAKate O&#039;SheaFri Jul 21 1989 14:4314
    I spoke too soon.  I did get the trademark symbol to pop up after one
    bookbuild, but it hasn't popped up since.  I didn't bother mentioning
    it as I figured the June baselevel would fix the problem.
    
    It doesn't.
    
    The situation is still the same:  the registered trademark symbol
    appears in the chapter title, but it is not hot-spotted.  
    
    Can you help?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Kate
131.5VAXUUM::UTTMon Jul 24 1989 16:316
    Please send me the file with the trademark symbol in it, plus your
    profile. 
    
    Thanks,
    
    Mary