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FrameMaker: Listed Numbers Serif Font, Text is Sans Serif?

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Does anyone know why, after HTML5 output, my listed numbers are serif but all my text is sans serif? Thanks.

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The reason your numbers are in Sans Serif is because the default CSS doesn't specify a base font.

(Yes, it would be nice if Adobe fixed this. I've requested this previously at adobe.com/go/wish, and you should do the same)

You can add either a body or html entry that specifies the font you want to use in your base css to remedy this.

More complete instructions on this are in the Manage CSS section in my post at

https://techcommtools.com/formatting-branding-html5-content-framemaker-2015/

-Matt

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

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The reason your numbers are in Sans Serif is because the default CSS doesn't specify a base font.

(Yes, it would be nice if Adobe fixed this. I've requested this previously at adobe.com/go/wish, and you should do the same)

You can add either a body or html entry that specifies the font you want to use in your base css to remedy this.

More complete instructions on this are in the Manage CSS section in my post at

https://techcommtools.com/formatting-branding-html5-content-framemaker-2015/

-Matt

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-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

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Thanks Matt, I'll try adding a html or body entry to my base css and see if it works.

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Hezy A

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I think that the answer is

Change the setting for auto-number to convert to text, as shown below.

If this does not work then, iscrepancies in the HTML 5 file always tell me that the FrameMaker source is not really set up correctly.

I suggest going back to the Frame file and verifying that this style is set up correctly there.

Sometimes something looks OK in Frame, but is not really set up correctly.

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Jeff_Coatsworth

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IIRC, if you change to "Convert to Text" then your style sheet doesn't apply because the resulting HTML doesn't think it's a list.

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Hezy A

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Well it work correctly for all my help files. So maybe for simple files this is OK?

I am working from FrameMaker directly to the HTML 5 help, using the Frame settings pages without editing the Style sheets. Without any additional changes or editing to the file once i am done. So I do not need to add more items to the list in the html, just use whatever was in the FrameMaker file.

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Hezy A

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Can you say which version of FrameMaker you are using?

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Jeff_Coatsworth

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Probably because your CSS is either telling it to look that way (or it's NOT telling it to look as a sans-serif & the default is serif).

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charless80395138Author

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Thanks. My CSS is telling it to be sans-serif, though. This is what's there:

p.FM_bulleted_numbers {

                color:#000000;
                font-family:"Neue Helvetica W02" ,"Helvetica Neue" ,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
}

p.FM_bulleted_numbers 2 {

                color:#000000;
                font-family:"Neue Helvetica W02" ,"Helvetica Neue" ,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;

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Jeff_Coatsworth

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Are there other CSS files present in your output? Maybe they are being referenced in addition to yours? I'd check the HTML source to see what's being used. There used to be a bug in the RoboHelp engine (starting around RH11) that drives the FM HTML generation and gave each page 2 CSS file references - and whatever was the last one mentioned set the rule for how it appeared.

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