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MNGermany
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March 15, 2017
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Numbers at the end of a topic header truncated

  • March 15, 2017
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I have linked a great number of Word documents to Robohelp 11 HTML, all of which are formatted with headings and standard and other styles. Now I discovered that if there is a number at the end of a heading e.g. "2.2 Example 1", this number is truncated in the TOC of the output. It is just not visible. Is there any way to influence this behaviour? I already looked at the project settings and the conversion settings for Word documents but there are only options to drop the numbering of the headings (at the beginning of a heading), which does not meet my needs.

Funnily there is a kind of workaround if a dot is added at the end of the number but this is a bit of a "dirty" solution and looks as if the number displayed was incomplete. I hope there is a better i.e. more professional solution! Any feedback, advice and ideas are welcome!

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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March 15, 2017

I reported this just over a year ago. I wonder if in Word you format the full stop/period to be the same colour as your ultimate background, would that carry through and be an acceptable compromise.

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MNGermanyAuthor
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March 15, 2017

Hi Mr Grainge, thanks for replying to my post.

I actually did that but as it was pointed out to me this only works as long as the reader has a (in this case) white background. And of course this may lead to other side effects or in the least may be forgotten/overlooked. But I am glad that this is a well-known problem and not a mistake on my part:-)

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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March 15, 2017

I'm thinking that unless the reader has set up their browser to override your styles, very unlikely, you control the background.

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