Creating and Activating Links

From your Scientific Notebook document, you can create links to these different kinds of targets:

• a specific place, or marker, elsewhere in the current document

• a different .tex document located on your computer or network, or a marker in that document

• a location on the Internet, or a marker in that location

To create a link, you specify what you want to see in your document at the point of the link and where to find the target. What appears in your document can be text, which appears on screen in green and in print like ordinary text, or one of the icons provided with the program. The address of the target differs depending on the target itself, following the model used in standard web browsers:

The address	Links to
here	the marker here in the current document
yourdoc.tex	the document yourdoc.tex in the current directory
c:#21#>other#22#>yourdoc.tex	the document yourdoc.tex in the other directory
yourdoc.tex#here	the marker here in the document yourdoc.tex
http://www.site/doc.tex	the information at the web address http://www.site/doc.tex
http://www.site/doc.tex#here	the marker here at the web address http://www.site/doc.tex
http://www.site/doc.html#here	opens your web browser and links to the marker here
	at the web address http://www.site/doc.html

    To create a link

1. Place the insertion point where you want the link to appear.

2. ClickitbpF22.4375pt21.0625pt2pthypertext.wmf on the Field toolbar or, from the Insert menu, choose Field and then choose Hypertext Link.

3. In the Screen Text box, enter the text of the link as you want to see it on the screen and in print. If you want to see an icon instead of text, click Attach Icon and select one of the available icons.

4. In the Target box, enter the address of the target.

5. Choose OK.

   
   

If you create a link to a marker in a Scientific Notebook document, make sure the marker exists. Markers appear on screen only if you check the Marker Fields item in the View menu. They appear in preview and in print only if you change the default Print Option settings.

    To create a marker

1. Open the target document.

2. Place the insertion point where you want the marker.

3. ClickitbpF22.4375pt21.0625pt2ptmarker.wmfor, from the Insert menu, choose Field and then choose Marker.

4. In the Key box, enter a marker. Click the arrow at the right of the box to see a list of markers already in use in the document.

5. Choose OK.

6. Save the document

   
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    To jump to a target

• In a document saved as read-only (such as those provided with the program), click the link. In a document not saved as read-only, hold down the Ctrl key and click the link.

  or

  Place the insertion point in the link and then, from the Tag menu, choose Action.

  
  

The History list is a record of the jumps you make. Scientific Notebook activates the list as soon as you make a jump Each time you jump, the program adds an entry to the top of the History list showing the target of each jump. You can view the History list to see the sequence of the jumps you've made, and you can double-click an entry in the list to jump to the target again.

    To return to the source of a jump

• ClickitbpF19.5625pt18.8125pt2ptback.wmfor, from the Go menu, choose History Back.