Pages 09 bookmarking problem

@PeterBreis: Thanks for responding. However, I must apologize for my lack of a clear description. I understand what a Bookmark is as it is supposed to be implemented in Pages. Correct me if I'm wrong but it's analogous to an anchor tag in HTML. I also understand that the ToC doesn't automatically link to Bookmarks; it's simply a block of text.

So: I want to create a bookmark on a page that I want readers to be able to link to. After creating the bookmark, I would go to my ToC, highlight a chapter title, then select the Hyperlink option in the Inspector, then I would choose Bookmark from the drop down menu, an make a selection from the list that pops up.

Am I correct in the theory so far?

My problem is that I cannot create a bookmark by highlighting some text and going either to the Inspector or to the Insert > Bookmark item from the menu bar.

My understanding is that I need to create a bookmark before I can create a hyperlink to it.

Unfortunately I am not at all familiar with various heading styles as I'm "old school" and simply style my own by changing the font, size, and making it bold. It's an integral part of the article.

Since you mention that

Neither Bookmarks nor T.O.C. will create/index text in objects such Textboxes...

I'd like to know why not (not meaning to be disrespectful), and if there's some other way of creating an internal link from one area of text to another. If that's not possible, then perhaps I'm trying to get Pages to do something that's not possible. I should note that the Pages document is only a transitory file as once all my articles are included, I intend to export to PDF, then create an epub file using a third party app.

Finally, I don't want to have Pages create a ToC for me as I have a very specific design in mind (see image).

<sigh> For this discussion, let's leave the Pages implentation of tables of contents aside. No further discussion of a ToC.

I wil boil it down to the most basic that I can: I am unable to select text and designate that selection as a bookmark. Plain and simple. I do not want to get into a discussion about styles and headings except as they apply to the creation of a bookmark and susequent hyperlink from some other text to that bookmark.

Put another way, if I have a paragraph somewhere in my article that I want my readers to be able to link to from elsewhere in the article, I would expect to establish an anchor at the destination text, then establish a hyperlink to that anchor using the tools provided in Pages' Inspector.

I have not been able, by following the Pages Help, to even create the bookmark. Help does not specify that the bookmark cannot be text in a text box. Help does not specify any restriction on the creation of a bookmark.

I'm sure I can create a link as you discribe above but that's impossible without first creating a bookmar, which, as I've tried to point out in various ways, I'm not able to do. That's where I need help.

WRT old school, you may be right about the three decades but my "older" school goes bck to the forties and fifties and Underwood typewriters. From the late seventies, when I bought my first A2 and used John Draper's WP program, as well as the Apple Pascal editor, then getting a Z80 CP/M card to run Wordstar, I've been happily writing books, white papers, fiction, professional corporate newsletters, PR fluff, you name it. My "headers" were simply as I described. Except for IBM's Bookmaster I didn't see the need for defining header styles. In my case here, I'm not the least bit concerned with page numbers.

@peter: that comment about posters' locations was totally uncalled for and certainly surprising in the Apple forums.

I don't think for a minute that I've dig my own hole, rather I came up against a problem and thought there might be something I've overlooked. I now see that the application does not meet my expectations and I will move on.

Thanks to you and Jeff for helping clear up my misunderstanding.

Tod

@ Jeff:

As a postscript let me say that I may be slow sometimes but I do try to figure things out. In this case, I'll plead guilty of ignorance about the WP mode of Pages as for years all I've used is the Layout mode. In this particular case I have been guilty of inserting a text box then pasting material into it (because that's what I've always done with the Layout mode). It didn't occur to me until just a bit ago that in WP one can just begin typing (or pasting) text without the need for a text box. Pasting my text in on a blank page worked perfectly (a surprise to me) and I was able to create a bookmark.

@Peter: I apologize for being slow to recognize what you were trying to explain.

-Tod

Peter, All's well that end's well.

FWIW I've been addicted to layout apps for fifteen years since I first picked up an app made in Germany (the name escapes me) for laying out newsletters, brochures, etc. Made the transition to Pages early on and coninued to rely on the page layout mode. I have very little use for WP apps as Bean or TextEdit work quite well when I do need to do a little WP. I mentioned the WP mode in Pages only because another thread pointed out that WP was necessary for Bookmarks to work. Little did I know how much there was to learn.

WRT your experience with Tex, that's too bad. For me, since I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, it just takes time for the advice to penetrate. Then you'll see one of those cartoon lightbulbs turn on.

Cheers!

Tod

Ragtime indeed! Thanks for recalling it for me. It was a good DTP app in its day.

So when I started in on Pages I recall that I had a lot of trouble positioning things on the canvas while(st) in WP mode so I switched to layout, which worked great for my purposes. Now that I don't have any pressing contracts or projects, perhaps I should spend time in WP learning about the features you say are missing in layout. If you have a few free minutes, could you type up a brief list of what you consider the top WP features that are missing in layout? Or is there an epub that you can recommend for reading? No hurry, and you can PM me if you'd rather go that route.

I had to chuckle at your last paragraph as the disappointment with Pages 5 was fairly dripping off the page! And I totally agree; Pages 5 is a textbook example of a POS.

-Tod