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Anonymous
October 22, 2012
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How can I mark large sections of a topic to be skipped during RH spell check?

  • October 22, 2012
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I have a RoboHelp Webhelp project in which many of the topics have sample code and other entire lines of package, class, and other names that I want

the spell checker to bypass.

Unfortunately, there is no option to select the text and mark it to be ignored.

When I run spell check, RH flags certain words or phrases and asks me how to handle them, one at a time.

If I close the spell check dialog, RH bounces right back to the spot where I stopped it during a subsequent spell check.

This is tedious and I end up with multiple <rhignored? = "text to be ignored".> in a single code sample, for example.

Is there a better way to mark sections of text to be skipped?

I see this as basic functionality, and maybe I am missing something I did not find on this forum or in the help files.

Thanks so much!

Cynthia

I meant to add that I am using RoboHelp 9 on a PC running Vista.

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RoboWizard
RoboWizard
Inspiring
October 24, 2012

Hi there

I'm not posting to say "well all you have to do is..." but I do see something that might work for you.

You stated that RoboHelp adds: <rhignored? = "text to be ignored".>

So it strikes me that you might dabble in the source code a tad and just manually use that code to surround your code block.

What I'm unsure about, however, is if RoboHelp will respect it and leave it alone when you return to the Design view. Oftentimes we see RoboHelp behaving like a four year old where it tries to "help you out" by making unwanted changes that way.

Cheers... Rick

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Anonymous
October 31, 2012

Thanks for the advice. I'll pass it on to the person who will assume responsibility for the project. The rhignored tag precedes text to be ignored, and this tag does not have a closing tag. You put all text to be ignored inside the quotation marks, so essentially, you would be copying all the code into the quotation marks, then following with the actual code sample. If I have time, I will try it on a test project I set up.

Peter Grainge
Community Expert
Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 24, 2012

Sorry but there's no way I have seen. I state that quite categorically as what will hopefully happen is that someone will now respond they do know a way.

I'm not sure I would agree what you want is basic functionality but I do understand your need for it.

The more people who request a feature, the more likely it is to be actioned. Please follow this link.

http://www.Adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=38

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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Anonymous
October 31, 2012

When I get a bit of time, I'd like to request such a feature, to ignore text. I think of it as basic because I can skip o ver text I do not want spell checked using other desktop publishing, such as FrameMaker, and other word processors.

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