FM Styles and Glossary Wizard -- craziness!

Report · Mar 25, 2010

Whenever I use the glossary wizard, my RH style sheets get screwed up. Originally, I used an FM document as a template for my styles. This worked great as I was able to link the documents and map the styles. However, when I use the glossary wizard to create hotspots in my files, some styles went wacky. I was able to fix most of the problems by removing the style mappings, and just making the styles in my framemaker template match how I want them to look in RH: in the Project Setting dialog, I set the RoboHelp Style field to "[Source]" for all.

99% of my problem are fixed except for one heading (and probably a few other styles I haven't discovered). Prior to using the glossary wizard, the style "FM_Heading3RH" is seen in the Styles and Formatting task pane. After using the Glossary Wizard, the "FM_Heading3RH" style dissapears from the task pane, and in the style drop-down, the style says "fm_heading3rh" (all lowercase).

This seems like a pretty weird bug to me ... I wonder if anyone has a workaround? I'm going crazy trying to figure this out!

Thanks in advance,

John

Report · Mar 30, 2010

When the glossary wizard is used, a bunch of styles are half-hazardly entered into each linked document's CSS file. These are styles for the glossary items to determine how they look ... and how the text expands when it's clicked.

For now, after running the Glossary wizard and prior to compiling the project, I'm manually updating each documents style sheet. Is there a better way to do this?