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Anonymous
April 28, 2009
Question

double dash converted to "&endash;" in published doc

  • April 28, 2009
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Greetings,

Does anyone know why a double dash -- which appears as a solid long hyphen in RoboHelp -- would be converted to text "&endash;" in published output?

I am using RH7's WebHelp to generate the published doc.  It's a nasty, recent development.

Thanks
Marcye Britt

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SamDavidson
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April 28, 2009

I was having this problem a while ago. I think one of the patches adobe put out fixed it. Did you try downloading those?

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Anonymous
April 29, 2009

Thanks Sam~

I downloaded an update this morning; now I'm running RH 7.01.001 but the output in my published project still

substitutes &endash; for a double dash.

Marcye Britt

RoboWizard
RoboWizard
Inspiring
April 29, 2009

Hi there

Unfortunately applying the update after you have upgraded a project will have no effect. What needs to happen is that you apply all updates. Then using the backup copy that you were wise to make before upgrading (you did do this, didn't you? ) you would upgrade the project again. But this time the HTML entities would properly convert.

If by chance you didn't make a backup copy (lesson learned?) you are faced with locating all instances of the HTML entities and manually correcting them. You might have some success with using RoboHelp's Find and Replace utility.

Cheers... Rick

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