Hello Howard,
I am trying to have links on HTML / Web Site output to open reference pages on other sites. As an example the link entered on the Notes page is as follows: <a href="url">Link text</a>. However after I run the output I find that the hyperlink is being replaced with <EM>a href="url"</EM>Link text<EM>/a</EM>. Equally urls without html tags don't function as hyperlinks on HTML / Web Site pages. I could not find any reference to this issue in the Reference Guide.
If there isn't a workaround please consider this as a wish list item.
Many thanks
Eric
Hi Eric,
Here is an example of an arbitrary URL at the end of somebody's (Elizabeth Adams') notes:
Elizabeth Adams, daughter of Rev. William and Alice Adams, was born on 23 February 1680/1 in Dedham.^
~†{Dedham}, 1.
Elizabeth Adams,^ born on 23 February 1680/1, married first Reverend Samuel Whiting on 14 September 1696 in Windham, Connecticut. He was born on 22 April 1670 and baptized on 24 April 1670 in Hartford, Connecticut, son of Reverend John Whiting and Sybil Collins. He studied for the ministry under Reverend James Fitch and was ordained on 4 December 1700. He was the first minister in Windham, Connecticut. Elizabeth and Samuel Whiting had fourteen children, all born in Windham.
~†{Bradford Wm}, 17.
~{Bradford Wm Mayflower 5}, 55–56.
Samuel Whiting died on 27 September 1725 in Enfield, Connecticut. His estate was divided among his widow Elizabeth; his sons John, Eliphalet, Elisha, Samuel, Joseph and Nathan; and his daughters Ann Fitch, Elizabeth Gouger, Sibill Backus and Mary Whiting. The divison mentions his eldest son William.
Elizabeth married second Reverend Samuel Niles on 22 December 1737 in Windham. He was born on 1 May 1674 in Block Island (then New Shoreham), Rhode Island, son of Nathaniel Niles and Sarah Sand. He graduated from Harvard in 1699, preached at Block Island and was a missionary in Rhode Island.
Samuel Niles had married first Elizabeth Thatcher on 29 May 1701 in Milton, Massachusetts, and they had Samuel, Elizabeth, Mary and Nathaniel. He married second Ann Coddington on 22 November 1716 in Newport, Rhode Island, and they had Elisha and Susanna.
Samuel Niles died on 1 May 1762 in Braintree, Massachusetts. Elizabeth died on 21 December 1766 in New Haven, Connecticut.
www.lanopalera.net/Genealogy/beta/PAWriterU.dmg
If you generate a website for this person using File menu > Write HTML > Website for Tagged People where this person is tagged and you locate the entry for Elizabeth and click on Notes for her, then you will get a browser entry (including the URL) for Elizabeth like this:
Elizabeth Adams, daughter of Rev. William and Alice Adams, was born on 23 February 1680/1 in Dedham.
1Elizabeth Adams,
2 born on 23 February 1680/1, married first Reverend Samuel Whiting on 14 September 1696 in Windham, Connecticut. He was born on 22 April 1670 and baptized on 24 April 1670 in Hartford, Connecticut, son of Reverend John Whiting and Sybil Collins. He studied for the ministry under Reverend James Fitch and was ordained on 4 December 1700. He was the first minister in Windham, Connecticut. Elizabeth and Samuel Whiting had fourteen children, all born in Windham.
Samuel Whiting died on 27 September 1725 in Enfield, Connecticut. His estate was divided among his widow Elizabeth; his sons John, Eliphalet, Elisha, Samuel, Joseph and Nathan; and his daughters Ann Fitch, Elizabeth Gouger, Sibill Backus and Mary Whiting. The divison mentions his eldest son William.
Elizabeth married second Reverend Samuel Niles on 22 December 1737 in Windham. He was born on 1 May 1674 in Block Island (then New Shoreham), Rhode Island, son of Nathaniel Niles and Sarah Sand. He graduated from Harvard in 1699, preached at Block Island and was a missionary in Rhode Island.
Samuel Niles had married first Elizabeth Thatcher on 29 May 1701 in Milton, Massachusetts, and they had Samuel, Elizabeth, Mary and Nathaniel. He married second Ann Coddington on 22 November 1716 in Newport, Rhode Island, and they had Elisha and Susanna.
Samuel Niles died on 1 May 1762 in Braintree, Massachusetts. Elizabeth died on 21 December 1766 in New Haven, Connecticut.
www.lanopalera.net/Genealogy/beta/PAWriterU.dmg_______________
1 Robert Brand Hanson, editor, Vital Records of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635–1845 (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1997), 1.
2 Ruth Gardiner Hall, compiler, Descendants of Governor William Bradford (through the first seven generations) (no place: no publisher, 1951), 17.
Ann Smith Lainhart and Robert S. Wakefield, compilers, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol. 22: Family of William Bradford (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004), 55–56.
Now if you select the URL and tell your browser to open that URL, it will. This will work for any URL that was put in notes and that the notes were included in any HTML output.
Please read the PAWriter Reference Guide entry for Notes Menu > Launch URL [command-U] and for File Menu > Write HTML > Web Site for Tagged People…, etc. Hope this answers your question.
(By the way, the example URL above is for downloading a version of PAWriter for people using an older version of the OS. Don't use it, just trash the dowload right away.)
Best regards,
Howard
