Printed Documentation: Section names are names of the topics' HTML files, and not the topics' names

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January 26, 2010
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Hi all,

Using RH 7.03.001.

I have completed a draft of my Help and I want to export it to a Word document to give to the SME to review. I want the Word document's chapter/section structure and naming to mirror the TOC topic structure I have created for the Help.

I opened the Printed Documentation properties, and in the window Print Document Content - Printed Documentation I clear the old Chapter layout and populate it with the whole TOC (using >>). I discover that while RH has preserved the names of the top-level books as the chapter names of the Word document, and also the topic structure has been preserved as the Word document's section structure, the section names have all been copied from the names of the topics' HTML files (ok, apart from having spaces instead of underscores between the words). Now I know that I should maintain parallelism of structure and naming, however when I am developing the TOC that maintenance takes time, and so until the SME has given the final OK on section structure and naming, I would rather not do the same work twice over.

Is there any switch of which I am not aware that will copy the book/topic naming of the RH TOC as section naming for the Word document?

TIA

avi

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Peter Grainge

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Please use the camera icon and add a couple of screenshots to show the difference you are seeing.

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avi10000Author

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Hi Peter, Thanks for the response. Initially, I couldn't understand what you were after: why the screenshot. But you made me think again; I guessed you are aware of something that I am not. So I did a couple of quick experiments, and lo and behold, I found that the Word document section names are the names of the topics' HTML titles (inside <title> .. </title>), and not the names of the topics' HTML files, as I first said. (It''s just that the topic HTML title takes the initial topic name or file name (depending on how you create it).

So, ok, I stand corrected. But this doesn't solve the problem; it just moves it. I still have to do the same text playing twice over. When I experiment with the topic naming, I also have to change the topic HTML titles. Maybe I can write a macro to do it. (I have QuickMacros.)

avi

Peter Grainge

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You are on the right lines. Problem is that my files are now so well established I would have to poke around with some tests to get back on top of the logic.

Create a small print layout or better still set up a small project with some simple topics and try different wizard settings and keeping the book names / titels in syn and then deliberately getting them out of sync.

If you still cannot resolve it, post back and I'll put some more time into it.

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