List of Effective Pages and HTML5

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June 9, 2025
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I have been working on developing a template which allows the user to work with a List of Effective Pages. This feature is essential in many types of documentation.

Lists, however, are not exported as HTML5. Some lists are, in a sense, exported , like the TOC and the Index, but a list of figures, tables etc will not appear in the HTML5 publishing output. I believe this is unfortunate and it makes HTML5 publishing a poor option in many scenarios.

Can it be fixed? Beyond workarounds like pasting the document into other documents and similar "magic"?

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

Can you work around it by having the list present twice:

once as Generated, but not part of book, and
once as part of book, but not generated (or even as text Inset)

This workflow might require double Updates (which I do anyway, for other reasons).

There is of course the wide question of how these page-oriented assets are presented in a content-oriented context like HTML. Hyperlinks only?

F

FrameMaker-dk

Author

Community Expert

I can import the loep into anothe document and have it publish to html5. Only not with the hyperlinks. It is a doable approach, but it does come with some limitations. No hyperlinks and it will make a mess of pagenumbers/chapternumbers etc.. I have never fully understood why lists are not being published as HTML5. It makes little sense when they are so crucial in highend publishing.

Bjørn Smalbro - FrameMaker.dk

Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

I bet the thinking is that LOEP is a print-publishing concept and really doesn't translate well to HTML.
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