Skip to main content
Known Participant
July 21, 2015
Question

Autonumbered lists conversion issues

  • July 21, 2015
  • 1 reply
  • 868 views

Hi all

I've had a number of poor results with autonumbered lists during conversion from Frame to RoboHelp in Technical Communication Suite 2015. First it didn't seem to matter which option I chose, convert to HTML list, multilevel list or convert to text, all my list items were returned with the number 1. Each list item was starting over again at the beginning. Then I finally removed a property from my numbered paragraph style that RoboHelp had placed, unknown to me, into my CSS. Unfortunately I can't remember exactly what it was as I was desperately trying many options at the time, but it did have something to do with x-list. This is not a CSS property as far as I know, so it's some RoboHelp command. Since I removed it my lists are now numbering correctly, but there are now two sets of numbers as follows:

This is the code I see:

<?rh-list_start start="1" style="list-style: rh-list; list-style: rh-list;" ?><p

  class="Numbered" style="margin-left: 17.712pt;"><span class="FM_StepNumber">1.<span

  class="FMAutoNumber_1" style="padding-left: 7pt;">&#160;</span></span>Go

to the IT Asset Management workspace and expand the Finance and Organization

Management &gt; Organizations folder.</p><?rh-list_end ?>

It's the same for every step. It appears RoboHelp still thinks it needs to number the steps even though I've changed the option to convert to text. I have updated the FM files, which are linked to my project, not imported. I have regenerated output. I even created a new project, with the same Frame files, but the results were the same.

Not sure what the next step is so I would appreciate some advice.

Thanks

Gerry

This topic has been closed for replies.

1 reply

Jeff_Coatsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 21, 2015

Do you have 2 FM paragraph tags for the numbered lists in FM? Like one starting at “1” and the rest just adding “+1” onto the last one? If so, how did you map them in your RH Conversion Settings screen?

ProvGSAuthor
Known Participant
July 21, 2015

Yes I have two styles in Frame as you mentioned and they are both mapped to the same paragraph in the conversion settings. Is that the issue?

Thanks

Gerry

Jeff_Coatsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 21, 2015

They’re mapped to the same RH Style? Or just to “[Source]”?