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RH 2026: FM import of a toc supress / (slash) in all headings

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A current project describes a product whose name contains a slash (not our decision, but that’s how it is). The name appears quite frequently in the FrameMaker TOC. When importing or linking to RH 2026, a TOC is generated where all slashes disappear from the headings. They can’t be manually reinserted in RoboHelp either.
Does anyone else have this problem? Is there a workaround?

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What happens if you use an escape character first before the slash? (forward or back? your post doesn’t say)

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A-BelAuthor

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Jeff, your question gave me an idea that solves the problem for now. For program names defined via variables, I can replace the forward slash with a backslash. It then appears as a forward slash in the text, in the table of contents, in the RoboHelp table of contents, and in the bookmarks.
This isn’t a solution for using forward slashes in headings; we’ll add a note to the style guide stating that this isn’t possible.

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Thanks, Peter, imported or linked TOCs cannot be edited in RH.
I did not know how to control the formatting from FM.

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Peter Grainge

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I’m not a FrameMaker user so I don’t know how the TOC gets into RoboHelp. Does it appear as standard TOC? If it does, it seems you can add a slash here. Maybe that’s not the issue.

My site www.grainge.org includes many free Authoring and RoboHelp resources that may be of help.

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What happens if you use an escape character first before the slash? (forward or back? your post doesn’t say)

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