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August 3, 2009
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Editing the CSS in RH8

  • August 3, 2009
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We recently upgraded from 5 to RH8, and I'm taking the opportunity to improve the css that I inherited.

Is it not adviseable to do it in RH? Because in trying to set the formatting for steps and bulleted lists, I'm having a lot of difficulty. I'll have the indent set and when I try to match up the rest of the paragraph of the bulleted item, it's moving the original indent (or adding/removing space between the bullet and the paragraph). It seems really unstable. Doing all of this in FrameMaker was a breeze.

Thanks.

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    notv4me
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    August 17, 2009

    I'm also having similar problems. We just upgraded from RoboHelp x5 to RoboHelp 8 and everything with the conversion was fine, but now the output of our project is not applying the template/CSS that we have.

    When we look at the topics in RH8, bullets and numbers are all fine. But when output for our users, all of the numbered lists, whether they were numbered or lettered, are all showing up as numbers. For example:

    In RH8 we have

    1.

         a.

         b.

         c.

    2.

         a.

         b.

    But the output shows as

    1.

         1.

         2.

         3.

    2.

         1.

         2.

    I have tried to edit the css to no avail, the changes just don't seem to stick. I then also copied out the css from our RHx5 project to overwrite the one that appears corrupted, but that did not help, either.

    Any help you can provide?

    Thanks!

    - WD

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    painted8Author
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    August 17, 2009

    WD -

    To get the 2nd level of 1, 2, 3, to be a, b, c, I think you have to go into the HTML and change the <ol type="1"> to <ol type="a">.

    Barry

    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 17, 2009

    I wonder if the problem is that the lists were in fact defined as paragraph styles rather than OL and UL tags?

    See http://forums.adobe.com/message/2167039#2167039

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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    Peter Grainge
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    Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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    August 4, 2009

    If you are talking about simple numbered or bulleted lists, editing within RH or using something like Top Style should both be OK. If you are talking about using RH's new multi-level lists, you'll struggle with any other editor than RH itself and they have proved troublesome for some people.

    See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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