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JKRothwell
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July 7, 2008
Question

Bullet (unordered) sublists within number (ordered) lists are displayed incorrectly

  • July 7, 2008
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In my FrameMaker source, I've got the usual L1 Bullet List, L2 Number List, L3 Bullet Sublist, L4 Number Sublist styles defined. I've imported the source by reference into RoboHelp, and I've mapped the FrameMaker styles via fmstyles.css to RoboHelp styles. I've resolved almost all the style issues, but a nasty one remains: Bullet sublists within number lists are not displayed properly.

All the combinations of lists and sublists look fine in FrameMaker. In the help (WebHelp) that RoboHelp produces, bullet sublists within bullet lists are displayed as I would expect: The sublists are indented and have a different bullet style (circles rather than disks) relative to the "parent" list. Bullet sublists within number lists, however, are displayed incorrectly. They are indented too far (twice as far as I they should be), and they use the wrong bullet style (circles rather than disks). No matter how many times I use the style editor to try to convince RoboHelp to display bullet sublists within number with the correct indentation and bullet style, I get the same result. Has anyone every fought this battle and won? If so, how did you do it?

Thanks!
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Maryann8
Inspiring
July 8, 2008
There is a lot of discussion on this topic.
Do a search on "lists".
Be sure to check out the topic string:
"Big problem with numbered lists"
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Anonymous
July 8, 2008
I think you cannot mix bullet and numbered lists at different levels during the import because RoboHelp makes one single list out of the entire list/sublist order. I.e., after the import, all list items are simple items in one list even though they belonged to different list levels in the original document.

I did succeed in using bulleted sublists within normal bullet lists. I created a second CSS style in the import dialog (with a larger indention) and mapped it to the FM-style that resembles the sublist items.But due to RH putting all items into one list, you cannot mix different bullet styles. Most browsers will ignore this and display a sinlge bullet style for all items in the list.
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