Question
Revenge of the RoboHelp List Styles
Well I THOUGHT I had this problem licked with a workaround;
now I'm having a new peculiar problem that has me completely
stumped. In short, in RH, all of my list styles (numbers, bullets,
notes) are getting an extra space inserted after the bullet, number
or the word "Note."
Using my standard bullet style as the example:
FrameMaker Autonumber Format:
o\t##
[that's a bullet character, tab, and two blank spaces)
Character format = Bullet
With this format, all my bullets in FM line up quite beautifully.
RH Result:
o###Some text.
[that's a bullet, followed by three spaces and the text. The third space however appears bold while the first two blank spaces are not bold.]
Matching RH HTML:
<p class=bullet>o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman'; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span>##Some text</p>
Where o is a bullet character
### are extra untagged blank spaces (not a just a blank space) inserted into the HTML.
If I manually remove these blank spaces, the extra bold space in the line is deleted.
Does anybody know where this is coming from? There is nothing in the CSS for the Bullet style that would cause the insertion of extra blank spaces (just standard CSS properties).
Also, my mapping is fine; I import my own CSS after the FM updates and apply it to all topics, which works fine an updates my styles correctly. The extra space business is happening immediately after the initial import and FM update and doesn't go away when I apply my own CSS to the files.
Any help would be enormously appreciated. Frankly, I'm stumped. Right now, I have to manually go through each topic and delete the extra space.
By the way, I'm using RH 7.02.
Using my standard bullet style as the example:
FrameMaker Autonumber Format:
o\t##
[that's a bullet character, tab, and two blank spaces)
Character format = Bullet
With this format, all my bullets in FM line up quite beautifully.
RH Result:
o###Some text.
[that's a bullet, followed by three spaces and the text. The third space however appears bold while the first two blank spaces are not bold.]
Matching RH HTML:
<p class=bullet>o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman'; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span>##Some text</p>
Where o is a bullet character
### are extra untagged blank spaces (not a just a blank space) inserted into the HTML.
If I manually remove these blank spaces, the extra bold space in the line is deleted.
Does anybody know where this is coming from? There is nothing in the CSS for the Bullet style that would cause the insertion of extra blank spaces (just standard CSS properties).
Also, my mapping is fine; I import my own CSS after the FM updates and apply it to all topics, which works fine an updates my styles correctly. The extra space business is happening immediately after the initial import and FM update and doesn't go away when I apply my own CSS to the files.
Any help would be enormously appreciated. Frankly, I'm stumped. Right now, I have to manually go through each topic and delete the extra space.
By the way, I'm using RH 7.02.
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