How can I insert space between a bullet character and text?

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March 28, 2008
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I imported my FrameMaker file and template into RoboHelp 7. After the conversion to RoboHelp, the bullet characters are too close to the paragraph text that follows. I was able to change the span's spacing in the Font dialog box's Spacing tab to expand the space. How can I apply this to all bullets in the topic?

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Anonymous

Thanks for the useful repsonses! All of this helps a great deal!

We are using Robohelp x5, so I think that falls into at least the Middle Ages version of RH if not Ancient. While I would love to jump up our FrameMaker 8.0 and RH x5 combo to the new Adobe Technical Comm Suite, I would have to make the case that it would save us significant time and money.

Thanks again --I just downloaded the TopStyle Lite!

Virginia

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dmagnum74Author

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I am so dense... I re-read this thread. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=65&catid=680&threadid=1348980&enterthread=y

AJ Owens suggested that we remove "Pre" from the User Defined HTML Tag field box in the Style Settings dialog box. When I initially accessed this box, I experimented with checking and unchecking the Convert Autonumber to HTML list box, but it never occurred to me to clear the User Defined HTML Tag field of "Pre". Now that I have cleared it, I am able to make changes in the Style Sheet Editor. (I can expand spacing so that I now see more space between the bulleted and numbered characters and the text that follows.)

MergeThis

Inspiring

See this thread.

Good luck,
Leon

Peter Grainge

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Try the free lite version of TopStyle from http://www.bradsoft.com

Generally regarded as one of the best CSS editors.

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johnmccallum

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Thanks Peter.

I use TopStyle Lite, too, but only for the web pages I write in Notepad. It is free so you can't beat the price. I use the built-in style editor in RoboHelp for our compiled help. I have an ancient version (v. 2000) of RH and the style editor is workable. I would assume it is even better in the newer versions. You don't need to know anything about style sheet syntax to use it. Of course the downside of that is that it is less flexible. For example, it is difficult to set styles for nested lists.

In my version of RH, there is a "Style Sheet" option in the "Format" menu. Open that and find the style you are having trouble with. Perhaps someone with a newer version can give you more pertinent details - or look up "style sheet" in the RH help.

John

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johnmccallum

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What you want to do is to edit the style sheet used on the page to ensure that the list items (LI tags) appear as you want them. RoboHelp has a pretty good style sheet editor built in. I suspect that when you import from FrameMaker you do not import a style sheet but are probably using RoboHelp's default for that topic.

John

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dmagnum74Author

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Thanks, John. I will look at the LI tags.

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Anonymous

John,

I'm having some similar troubles. How is the best way to edit the style sheet?

Thanks,
Virginia

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