List / Bullet Styles in RH7

Sorry Tom but without editing the code, I am not getting this to work. I will check an older version of RH later but that will not help you, I'm just curious.

Also I did not have that registry key either.

Tom

I will do some testing later as I thought I had this working as you want. However I would normally use a disc to start with so perhaps that is why I hadn't picked up on your problem.

Great suggestion! I looked in my registry, and for some reason, I didn't have the "Default-Bullet-List-Style" key. So I went ahead and added it, and put in a value of "" for it. When I reloaded RoboHelp and added a bulleted list, it didn't use a bullet at all! I checked the HTML, and here's what it did:

<ol style="list-style: ;">

So it freaked out a little. Not only did it put in a blank style, but it also chose <ol instead of <ul. I don't know if there's an overall key that can tell it to simply not add the style. In addition, I checked the HTML dom on the off-chance that there may be a "default" option I could use, but no dice.

Still, that's the closest I've come to "fixing" it - and I didn't even break the registry! Thanks for the advice, Ben.

By the way, all the usual disclaimers about editing the registry apply.

Tom,

For what it's worth, Rick suggested editing the registry to resolve another issue where RH defaults were overriding the CSS. I opened my registry up, and there is the following key:

Default-Bullet-List-Style

..and guess what--it's set to "disc."

Maybe if you edit that key's value to be blank (if that's allowed--I don't venture into the registry much), your styles will be applied instead.

When you run regedit, you can find this key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Adobe > RoboHelp > 7.00 > RoboEditor > Defaults.

--Ben

Peter,

I get the same thing as you - a bulleted list where the style is hard-coded as "disc". That's what I don't want. I just want a "ul" tag with nothing hard-coded, so that my style sheet can work behind the scenes to apply discs, circles, and squares automatically depending on level.

The way it is now, every time I create a multi-level bullet list, I have to manually change to circles or discs, and if I ever have to add, remove, or change indentation, it can throw everything off and force me to re-apply the type of bullet I want. If the style sheet were allowed to operate, I'd never have to worry about manually managing bullet or numbering styles in my lists.

Thanks for the followup, and I'm anxious to hear your thoughts.

-- Tom

Here's what I get if I create a list clicking the bullet icon.

What is it you get and what is it that is not giving you what you want?

<ul style="list-style: disc;" type=disc>
<li class=p><p>one</p></li>
<li class=p><p>two</p></li>
<li class=p><p>three</p></li>
</ul>

Are you basing that on what you see in the editor, in preview or the compiled help?

Create a new project with one topic containing some lists. Edit the CSS. If that does not work, you can send that project to me via http://transferbigfiles.com.

Make sure you email me at the same time with a link to this thread.