Run-in head - default punctuation in FM not carrying through to RH
TC 4 (FM11, RH10).
Hi everyone
I'm an experienced FM user who's just got the job of bringing our 3000-page reference manual into RH to produce HTML. Never touched RH before in my life, and overall I'm very impressed so far at how well our FM source has imported.
But one of our FM styles uses the "Run-in head - default punctuation" setting, and the punctuation character isn't showing up in RH. Instead, I get a blank line following the paragraph.
For example, here's a robohelp HTML snippet:
<tr style="height: 34.55pt;">
<td style="border-bottom: solid 1px #00547f; vertical-align: top;
padding-left: 6.00pt; padding-top: 3.00pt; padding-right: 6.00pt;
padding-bottom: 3.00pt;" width="306"><p class="FM_zcCmdPromptRA">awplus(config)</p>
<p class="FM_zcCmdSyntaxRA"> </p>
<p class="FM_zcCmdSyntaxRA">vlan database</p></td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid 1px #00547f; vertical-align: top;
padding-left: 6.00pt; padding-top: 3.00pt; padding-right: 6.00pt;
padding-bottom: 3.00pt;" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="319"><p
class="FM_zcCmdInstruction"> </p>
<p class="FM_zcCmdInstruction">Enter the VLAN Configuration mode.</p></td>
The first cell of this should have two lines of text, like this:
awplus(config)#
vlan database
Instead, it has 3 lines:
awplus(config)
vlan database
In Framemaker, the word "awplus" is an autonumber, the "(config)" is typed in, and varies, and the # is the punctuation character for the run-in head. In RH, there's an extra <p class="FM_zcCmdSyntaxRA"> </p> line, which is a non-breaking space. Can anyone explain why RH has added that?
Does anyone know if there's a setting I can tweak to get RH to import the punctuation character properly? I guess I can use search and replace on them if I have to, but there're thousands!
Many thanks
Rebecca
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