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Anonymous
February 1, 2010
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Auto generate glossary entries

  • February 1, 2010
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TCS 2

FM 9.0.3

RH 8.0.2

My Framemaker book includes a glossary file with terms and descriptions using devoted para tyles. Is there nay way to map these to styles in Rh to autogenerate as Glossary entries int he webhelp template based ont he style.

Alternatively, how can i make set these to behave as popups when the term is selected or when links to a term are selected?

TIA

Rob

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Burtin
Burtin
Inspiring
February 1, 2010

Hi.

Use FM's default glossary markers and map them to the same in RH.

FM-to-RH doesn't support pop-ups at present, only expanding text. I (and I am sure others) have entered this as a "must-have" selection into the feature "wish list" hosted at:  https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=5. My approach for the time being is saving each glossary term/definition set as a separate HTML file and searching replacing each expanding-text instance by an appropriate pop-up window instance. This creates rework on the back end, I know, but if anyone has a better approach...by all means, let's please hear it...

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Anonymous
February 1, 2010

I'm not sure i follow you on both those points.

  • I have assigned glossary markers to all the Glossary terms in FM. These are also unique FM styles. What do i do in RH. To what do i map these?
  • The second part about saving as separate HTML files, i can set pagination for GlossTerms but what then must i do ?
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Anonymous
February 12, 2010

Hi All,

I'm not sure if I'm a bit late in replying to this thread, but RoboHelp in TCS2 definitely has support for Glossary markers in FrameMaker. Per your information, you are very close to making this work.  Here's a short how-to I just uploaded for you, which shows the whole process: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/glossaryintcs2/

I hope this helps and thanks for using our Adobe Tech Comm Suite.

Sincerely,

RJ Jacquez

Adobe TCS2 Evangelist

on Twitter @rjacquez


Better late than never. That works just great for me. Thanks

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