Sonar Bookends Activate
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Activating URLs and email addresses

A feature that I really appreciate about Sonar Bookends Activate is the ability to recognize a URL even when it doesn't follow conventional formatting. Each of these examples below will be activated:

http://www.xraymag.com

www.xraymag.com/articles/xray_v5n6_quarkxpress_8_01.html

<www.thepowerxchange.com>

thepowerco.com

Activating URLs and email addresses is the process that we've covered twice now: Go to advanced > activate > URLs and e-mail addresses..

Figure 9 Activating all URLs and email addresses within a document is about two clicks.

Activating links between figures and their references

When you have a document format that contains both figures and references to those figures in the body of the text, such as this X-Ray Magazine article, you may link the text reference to the actual figure if you adhere to two rules: They are consistent and they are different. With that in mind, looking closer at this document, you'd realize that I may not link the references to the figures because the way that they are referenced in the text is not different than they way they are named. OK, that's probably confusing, try this:

Text Reference		Figure Name
Figure 10		Fig. 10		This Works
figure 10		Figure 10		This Works
Figure 10		FIGURE 10		This Works
Figure 10		Figure 10		This Won't

Table 1 This table shows you half the rule: Text references must be named differently than the figure names. Don't forget part two: All references must be consistent. Notice that sample two and three differ only in the text case. To use this, be sure to uncheck the ignore case option.

References to figure and the figure numbers are both followed by numeric digits. This ensures that if you have, for instance, used the sentence "She would not allow that to figure into the equation," this instance would not prompt a link activation because figure was not followed by digits. Assuming that your document does adhere to the rules, do this:

Choose advanced > activate > figure/table references.

 

Figure 10 To begin the process of associating the reference to the figure, choose from the advanced menu.

In the resulting dialogue box type how you have referenced the figures (in my example I have used Figure).

In the target field, type how you have referenced the figures (in my example I have used Fig.).

Figure 11 In the reference field of this dialogue box indicate how you have referred to the figures within the text. In the text field indicate how you have tagged the figures.

Click OK.

 

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