Random spaces

Question

I'm publishing to WebHelp using RoboHelp for Word. I'm
getting random spaces breaking up words throughout the manual. In
other words the text looks like this...

This is a sa mple sentence.

Has anyone come across this before or know of a
solution?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

It's been a while since I used RH for Word, but I'm assuming that it still uses Word for a topic editor.

Have you looked at the "True Code" view from RH for Word? Have you gone into Tools > Options and made everything visible?

The reason I am asking is that this looks like it might be an optional hyphen that WebHelp is interpreting as a space. If it is, you're in luck - Word Replace can find special characters like optional hyphens and get rid of them.

And, of course, you'll want to turn off optional hyphens in your RH for Word source documents (I forget exactly where...probably Tools > Options again).

HTH,
Elisa

RoboWizard · Answer

Hi bob2camI never work using RoboHelp for Word. What I'm about tosuggest would apply to my body of experience using RoboHelp HTML.However, it occurs to me that the same behavior could be observedfrom RoboHelp for Word.If you look at the "TrueCode". The HTML code that is producedfor your WebHelp pages, look carefully at the text where the oddspacing is occurring. You may notice a tag. The tagmay look similar to this: .The fix, of course, is to delete the offending tag ( ) as well as the closing ( ) tag. The cause? Well, in RoboHelp HTML it seems to occur when youindent some text, press Enter to create a new paragraph, thenbackspace to combine the two sentences. Hopefully this helps... Rick

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