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June 5, 2011
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How do I restart a numbered list?

  • June 5, 2011
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Hello all,

First of all, I have to say, I can't believe how long it is taking me to set up my project. It seems like the most basic functionality in FM does not translate easily to RH. The lack of documentation around TCS3 Frame to Robohelp linking is simply unbelievable. Am I the only one who is frustrated and missing deadlines because of this?

Anyway, I have encountered another problem with numbered lists.

My list consists of two Framemaker paragraph tags. One that sets the counter back to 1 (used for the first item in a list), and then another tag for list items 2 and onwards.

Here is the problem:

I am using the Multilevel lists feature to set up my lists, which, for the most part works fine.

The only problem I am encountering is this:

when I have two lists within the same topic, I cannot get the second list to restart at 1!  Has anyone been able to figure this out with the multilevel lists?

I know I can manually reset the counter from within Robohelp, but that defeats the purpose of linking my FrameMaker document. I cannot go and find all my lists in Robohelp and restart the numbering there. There has to be an automated way to do this.

Any ideas?

thanks.

Sue

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Participant
June 20, 2012

Did this issue ever get resolved? I am having the same problem with my project.

Anyone else have this issue?

Recently upgraded from TCS 1.3 to TCS 3.5.

Thanks,

Mark

Jeff_Coatsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 20, 2012

I solve it by converting my lists as Text instead of the other options offered.

Participant
June 20, 2012

Ok, I guess I should describe my current settings:

Project

FM book to Web Help Conversion

FM

Numbered List Styles:

  • Step1 - Autonumber format <n=1>.\t
  • Step1+ - Autonumber format <n+>.\t

RH

Mapped both FM Step1 and Step1+ styles to RH style (Step).

Autonumber setting for both Step 1 and Step1+ mapping set to Convert Autonumber to Text.

Excerpt from Framemaker File

Excerpt from RoboHelp Conversion


HTML code shows no difference.

What am I doing wrong? Any ideas?

Peter Grainge
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 7, 2011

When you open RoboHelp's own help, there is a link to TCS help. I don't know if that will answer your question but maybe the answer is there rather than in RoboHelp's OLH.

The TCS help can also be viewed at http://forums.adobe.com/message/3720120#3720120


See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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Matt-Tech Comm Tools
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Community Expert
June 5, 2011

Hi Sue,

I can generally get a project completely mapped in a few hours, and then hand it off to a CSS expert for formatting of the HTML.

If you'd like some help, and learn a bit about the process at the same time, please let me know.

-Matt

Matt Sullivan

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