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Ioana_S
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November 10, 2012
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Bullet style defined as "disc" in CSS is inserted as "circle"

  • November 10, 2012
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We use RH9 with RSC. I've been wondering about this problem for a few weeks and maybe someone here has an idea why it's happening...

The bullet style is defined as "disc" in our CSS, yet when I insert a bulleted list (using the button on the RH toolbar), my bullets end up as "circle" style. I don't use any other formatting on the bullets (the HTML I get is just <ul style="circle"><li>blahblah</li</ul>). The weird thing is that's it's only happening for me. My coworker opened the same project and she's getting "disc" bullets correctly.

It's not a major problem, I just go in the HTML and fix the bullets manually, but it's really bugging me. Is there a global setting in RH (or Windows?) that I messed up? Did I somehow set "circle" bullets as my default and that's overwriting the CSS?

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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November 10, 2012

I am guessing this is not source control related but because of the way you have defined lists.

In older versions of Rh you could define a paragraph style as a list. Since Rh8 lists have to be defined as list styles but you can superimpose a paragraph style for characteristics such as as font size and colour for the text. See Lists on my site and the link to Upgrading.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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Ioana_SAuthor
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November 10, 2012

Hi Peter,

I know what you mean, but I'm pretty sure it's not that. The CSS doesn't have any kind of RH7-type styles.This is how the list styles are defined:

UL {

    list-style-type: disc;

    text-align: Left;

    font-family: Arial;

    margin-top: 6pt;

    margin-bottom: 0pt;

    line-height: Single;

    font-size: 9pt;

}

LI {

    font-family: Arial;

    margin-left: 10pt;

    margin-top: 6pt;

    margin-bottom: 0pt;

    font-size: 9pt;

}

The weird thing is that it's working for everyone (4 other writers) except myself. It worked fine for me too until 2-3 weeks ago (we've been using RH9 and this CSS for a year)... so I'm thinking I did something on my machine that broke it.

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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November 27, 2012

Sorry, busy times at work... I tried it just now with a new project and no luck, still circles.


See the Contact page on my site and send the new project as instructed there. Do make sure you include a link to this thread and please do not email the project direct.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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