Generate TOC from FM: Heading 1's don't generate

Question

I've looked everywhere and can't find the answer to this problem.

In this question, I'll refer to "Broken.book," "Template.fm," "Clean.fm," and "Works.book" as follows:

* Broken.book - a book created using Template.fm. The Heading 1 TOC problem exists in this book.

* Template.fm - our master template with all of our styles and formatting.

* Clean.fm - a blank, no-styles file used as a template for

* Works.book - a book created with Clean.fm. The Heading 1 TOC problem does NOT exist in this book.

In both books, the TOC paragraph styles have Heading 2 and Heading 3 paragraphs indented below Heading 1.

The problem:

I LINK my Framemaker book (Broken.book) to a Robohelp HTML project (Robohelp 8.0.2, Framemaker 9.0p203, both in TCS 2). I set up the book in Robohelp to use the Framemaker TOC. I set up all my paragraph style mappings. I Generate the FM to RH files.

The RH-created TOC shows the Heading 2 and Heading 3 headings, but not the Heading 1s. When generating a TOC-enabled online help system, like WebHelp, the TOC navigation lacks all Heading 1s.

When I create the Works.book using Clean.fm, the TOC generates correctly.

When I have Robohelp generate a TOC for the book, it includes the Heading 1's (but then it shows all the X-Refs, which I do not want).

Really odd: When I apply each of the formats (I did this individually for process of elimination) from Template.fm to the files in Works.book? The TOC STILL generates correctly.

So, obviously there's something wrong with Template.fm. But WHAT? I can't find the problem-- importing all the formats doesn't break the Works.book in the same way.

All of our Framemaker documents have been created using the Template.fm, and I created the Template.fm myself, using a blank file. So if something's wrong in that file, I have to know what it is so I can fix it across the board.

Thanks in advance for your help. I have a good understanding of Framemaker and ePublisher; Robohelp is new to me, but I've undergone some training in using Robohelp and Framemaker in the TCS, so if you tell me what to look for, I can probably find it. I'm even looking in the MIF file to see if there's some weird little corruption somewhere, but so far, I've found nothing.

Thanks in advance for your help!

--Stephanie

mortaine_ · Answer

OK, here's the summary: Adobe doesn't like Microsoft fonts.

I had set Microsoft Sans font for my "Heading n TOC" paragraph styles. Changing JUST the font results in the TOC being generated in Robohelp correctly.

Go figure.

BTW: I can't be the only one who thinks how RH handles TOC generation (by paragraph formatting appearance) is completely wrong, right? I mean, here we have a robust structured authoring environment that is all about structure, structure, structure. And then we use an online help conversion program that basically extrapolates the structure using fonts and indenting-- and does so in a way that's completely opaque to users.

Message was edited by: mortaine_ to be less, um, harsh, in my criticism.

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