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feline_1973
Inspiring
August 30, 2013

I am using TCS4 (FM11 and RH10).

I have a project where my FrameMaker book is linked by reference into RoboHelp.

My FrameMaker content uses 'Conditional Text'. RoboHelp seems to pick up on this automatically, tagging that text with a corresponding 'Conditional Build Tag' in the RoboHelp project. (This is good!

There's one thing that's annoying me, though: in FM, by Conditional Text tag is set to colour the text Red. In RoboHelp, it changes this into a red dialogonal hatching behind the text. I'd prefer it to keep the text red, the same as it is in FrameMaker (because the problem is, my primary outout from RH is a .CHM file, and there is no formatting at all applied to the conditional text in the .CHM output).

Is there no way to do this?

It looks like I am going to have to apply Conditional Text and a dedicated red Character Format in FrameMaker, to have this text automatically appear red in the .CHM.

Jeff_Coatsworth
Community Expert
Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 30, 2013

@feline_1973 - Discovered this a while ago that RH doesn't have anywhere near the same level of control over marking up conditional text that FM does. Go log a "feature request/wishlist" item - the more of us that do, the better the chances that someone will put it on their dev plan ;>)

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feline_1973
Inspiring
August 30, 2013

I may well do that.

It looks to me like this quirk probably has something to do with the fact that FM's Conditional Text settings don't use Character Styles to get their colours - instead the dialog just has its own dropdown box of colours to chose. So whilst character styles do get mapped, somewhere along the line they forgot to pick up the colour of the conditional text.

For what it's worth, I actually find Robohelp's diagonal hatching quite nice, I wouldn't mind if Frame could do that too!

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Anonymous
May 15, 2013

I am trying to generate a print version of an HTML project. I do not want to use the master pages in the print version, but I can't apply a conditional build tag to a master page. What do I do?

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
May 15, 2013

Hi there

What are you hoping to prevent seeing in the Print? I ask, because when you are using Master Pages, the Headers and Footers you apply don't survive the trip into Printed output.

Cheers... Rick

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Anonymous
May 16, 2013

My master page consists of one single-column, 2-row table with "[product] Help Files" in the first row (white text; colored background), the body placeholder in the 2nd row, and the breadcrumb placeholder above the table. I don't have any footers or headers defined.

The table has a 3pt line as the table border, and that border surrounds the text in the printed page, and a colored bar with "[product] Help Files" shows up before each Topic title. I don't reckon I can insert the code for a conditional build tag in the HTML editor, such that the table is rendered invisible but the body placeholder is not?

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