how to get rid of automatic indenting of 1st line of paragraph?

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January 29, 2010
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I am somewhat new to this, have taken a RH8 course, but I'm baffled. When I generate any type of output, the first line in a paragraph is indented a wee bit. I am importing a FM 9 file (but don't believe the problem stems from FM; I have checked the paragraph tags). In my CSS, text-indent is set to 0.000pt. If I look at the HTML source, there are three non-breaking spaces that cause the indent I don't want. Anyone know at what point these get generated? They seem to just show up out of nowhere. Please tell me - what am I missing?

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Anonymous

Hi, the only thing I can think of as the reason you are getting non-breaking spaces (i.e.  ) is if you have spaces in your FrameMaker paragraphs. Please check your source FrameMaker files and even do a search for three spaced by selecting Edit > Find/Change. Enter 3 spaces in the Find box by pressing the space bar three times. Once you find these and delete them, save the file and "update" your files in RoboHelp, this indent should be removed.

Please let me know if this works.

Sincerely,

RJ Jacquez

Adobe TCS Evangelist

on Twitter @rjacquez

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Anonymous

Yes, there were spaces in the Frame file - thanks. At first it looked as though the spaces were not the culprit because one of our templates had them and one didn't - and they both produced the strange indent. Ends up that we needed to look a little closer. While one of our templates DID have the spaces in the first paragraph, it didn't in subsequent paragraphs - and it was the later paragraphs that we happened to look at the output (and missed the first paragraph). Moral of the story for me: look, look, and look again . Thanks for the help! -Kirsten

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Anonymous

Hi Shysh, glad this worked out well for you, thanks for letting me know.

Sincerely,

RJ Jácquez

Senior Product Evangelist

Adobe Technical Communication Suite

Adobe eLearning Suite

http://blogs.adobe.com/rjacquez

Twitter: @rjacquez

Peter Grainge

Community Expert

RH on its own does not indent the first line unless you set the CSS to do that. I think you are more likely to get help in the FrameMaker Integration forum as this type of question is what it is intended for. For that reason, I have moved the thread.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

Follow me @petergrainge

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