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TimLMun
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May 16, 2012
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"Glossary" heading in FM is at bottom of file in WebHelp

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We are using FrameMaker 10 and RoboHelp 9 on a Windows 7 platform.

We publish user guides that contain a Glossary chapter.  The Glossary chapter is located at the end of the user guides, just prior to the Index.

When we hand off the content from FrameMaker to RoboHelp to publish WebHelp, we do not want to use the RoboHelp Glossary tab.  Instead, we want the glossary to show up as a node you can click in the TOC, so that all glossary terms show up in the content frame on the right.

Everything works as we expect, with one exception.  The chapter heading "Glossary" (a Heading 1 paragraph style) that is at the top of the file in the FrameMaker book, appears at the very bottom of the Glossary content in the published WebHelp.  (All other Heading 1 chapter titles appear at the top when published to WebHelp.)

We know how to go into the HTML file and move "Glossary" to the top of the file.  However, we would like to just configure it somehow to show up at the top of the Glossary node without having to tweak it manually every time we publish.

Does anyone have any ideas that we can try?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.


Tim

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Jeff_Coatsworth
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Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
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May 16, 2012

Since you didn't really say which method you're using to get FM content into RH (importing or linking) it's a bit hard to diagnose what's going on. I make sure that my Glossary .fm file is placed in my FM ToC in the desired place before importing. With it in the ToC, it comes over in the correct place in RH. I tell the RH Conversion Settings that I want to use the FM ToC and IX, and say no to the Glossary import.

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TimLMunAuthor
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May 16, 2012

Thank you for the reply Jeff.


We neither link nor import.  We set up an empty project in RoboHelp with all of the properties we want, then publish WebHelp directly out of FrameMaker. [In RoboHelp, we set up File > Project Settings, and also WebHelp (Primary Layout) > Properties.]

Our glossary is a two-column glossary, but the "Glossary" Heading 1 is in its own text frame that spans the distance of both columns.

We are trying different approaches to the text frame.

Tim

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TimLMunAuthor
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May 16, 2012

Here is what we did that worked for us.

We got rid of the text frame on the first page of the glossary.

We put the Heading 1 text "Glossary" into the two-column content area of the glossary entries.


We used the "Pagination" tool of the Paragraph Designer, and selected "Across All Columns" for the Heading 1 paragraph style.

It worked.


Tim

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