/t5/robohelp-discussions/how-can-i-insert-space-between-a-bullet-character-and-text/td-p/927902Mar 28, 2008
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I imported my FrameMaker file and template into RoboHelp 7.
After the conversion to RoboHelp, the bullet characters are too
close to the paragraph text that follows. I was able to change the
span's spacing in the Font dialog box's Spacing tab to expand the
space. How can I apply this to all bullets in the topic?
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What you want to do is to edit the style sheet used on the
page to ensure that the list items (LI tags) appear as you want
them. RoboHelp has a pretty good style sheet editor built in. I
suspect that when you import from FrameMaker you do not import a
style sheet but are probably using RoboHelp's default for that
topic.
If you are using RoboHelp 7 then the CSS editor looks like
something swiped out of Word. It is awkward and inconvenient but it
does work. I find it easier to edit a RoboHelp file in Dreamweaver
through robohelp and use Dreamweavers CSS editor.. (I know the user
interface and can find what I want easily) For just a change or two
you can use a text editor.
I use TopStyle Lite, too, but only for the web pages I write
in Notepad. It is free so you can't beat the price. I use the
built-in style editor in RoboHelp for our compiled help. I have an
ancient version (v. 2000) of RH and the style editor is workable. I
would assume it is even better in the newer versions. You don't
need to know anything about style sheet syntax to use it. Of course
the downside of that is that it is less flexible. For example, it
is difficult to set styles for nested lists.
In my version of RH, there is a "Style Sheet" option in the
"Format" menu. Open that and find the style you are having trouble
with. Perhaps someone with a newer version can give you more
pertinent details - or look up "style sheet" in the RH help.
Thanks for the useful repsonses! All of this helps a great
deal!
We are using Robohelp x5, so I think that falls into at least
the Middle Ages version of RH if not Ancient. While I would love to
jump up our FrameMaker 8.0 and RH x5 combo to the new Adobe
Technical Comm Suite, I would have to make the case that it would
save us significant time and money.
Thanks again --I just downloaded the TopStyle Lite!
AJ Owens suggested that we remove "Pre" from the User Defined
HTML Tag field box in the Style Settings dialog box. When I
initially accessed this box, I experimented with checking and
unchecking the Convert Autonumber to HTML list box, but it never
occurred to me to clear the User Defined HTML Tag field of "Pre".
Now that I have cleared it, I am able to make changes in the Style
Sheet Editor. (I can expand spacing so that I now see more space
between the bulleted and numbered characters and the text that
follows.)
AJ Owens suggested that we remove "Pre" from the User Defined
HTML Tag field box in the Style Settings dialog box. When I
initially accessed this box, I experimented with checking and
unchecking the Convert Autonumber to HTML list box, but it never
occurred to me to clear the User Defined HTML Tag field of "Pre".
Now that I have cleared it, I am able to make changes in the Style
Sheet Editor. (I can expand spacing so that I now see more space
between the bulleted and numbered characters and the text that
follows.)
If I import a FrameMaker file into RoboHelp 7, it looks fine.
Then if I make one change (e.g. a change to the text), the
formatting is thrown off. This happens even if I don't tweak a
margin or spacing in a .css file. I just delete a couple of words,
and then the next time I generate the file, the bullets and numbers
are too close to the text that follows them in lists, etc. I've
been deleing "Pre" from the user defined html tag field when I
import, etc.
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