(Running the laterst updated of Framemaker 8 and Robohelp 7
HTML)
I have a command-language reference manual that contains many
preformatted programming source code and program listing or screen
output examples. These examples are captured from a console screen
by select-copy and pasted into Framemaker. They are then tweaked to
fit the page measure and a style is applied to make them all
monospaced (courier). To retain the format, soft spaces are
replaced with non-breaking spaces (ctrl-space). The PDF output is
correct.
On import to Robohelp, the code examples are misaligned in
design view and look even worse on the rendered HTML help. Looking
at the HTML code, there appear to be random strings of tagged
non-breaking spaces:
 </spaces> > > > <spaces>
The only way I could get the examples to display and render
correctly was to strip out all the HTML coding, realign the
examples manually, and insert a single <pre><\pre> tag
pair around the example. This is a lot of post-processing to get
the help output.
To try to get this to work properly, I created a test file in
Frame with a preformatted monospaced courier example.
I used soft spaces, hard spaces, and tabs to format and align
a version of the example. I also pasted in a flat-text version
using the different "paste special" options. The PDF output was
correct in all instances.
On import to Robohelp, all the examples were randomly
misaligned except for the tabbed example, where the tabs were
stripped out completely
I also tried importing flat ascii and Word examples into
frames, but no success there either.
When I look back at previous versions created with much older
versions of FM-to-Robohelp, the html code seemed to replace
preformatted spaces with a character code for spaces, so strings of
white space looked as follows:
    
The spacing problem has only appeared when we upgraded to FM8
with RH7 and it occurs for every preformatted example in the book.
Has anyone experienced this, and how did you create
preformatted content in your FM files so that it imported and
rendered correctly in RH7
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