Some FrameMaker paragraph tags missing from Style Settings

[eoprigjernt]

Some FrameMaker paragraph tags (styles) are not available for mapping in the FrameMaker Document Settings > Style Mappings > Edit >FrameMaker - RoboHelp Style Mappings dialog box. These paragraph tags (styles) are not present in all documents in the book that I am importing.

What can I do to map these styles?

[JainVivek]

RoboHelp picks up only those styles which are used in FrameMaker documents - styles with no text entry are not picked up. For example, if you have used a style to control spacing for anchored frames (with no text entry) and for auto-numbering (auto-numbering field has text but document does not contain one), these styles are not picked up by RoboHelp. Please insert a space for these styles and RoboHelp will pick these styles for mapping...

[eoprigjernt]

OK. You guessed correctly that the paragraph style I wanted to map was the one to which I have anchored frames containing graphics. I added some space to one of these paragraphs & updated the FrameMaker import. No change. So I added some actual characters (abc), and it worked. (I'll try again with the spaces later.)

Unfortunately, the reason I wanted to make that paragraph style available was so that I could map it to "No ouptut" in an effort to omit the graphics from my online help. Alas, that did not work. The "paragraphs" are not in the help, but the graphics are. (Well, at least some of them.)

Can you advise me on how to omit graphics from FrameMaker input files?

[eoprigjernt]

Oh. Wait a minute. The style (Window) I mapped to "No output" has indeed NOT been omitted. It has been mapped to a style called FM_Window, which is not in my stylesheet. (I checked, and fmstyles is the stylesheet being used. I opened fmstyles.css in a text editor, and no such style exists.) But it is there in the HTML for the topic, and, when I highlight that bit of code, including its &nbsp, in the HTML editor, and then switch to the Design editor, a tiny little paragraph is highlighted.

Am I doing something to cause this?

[JainVivek]

You can also use conditional text - say "Print Only" and omit them when you generate output from RoboHelp. RoboHelp brings in the conditional text from FrameMaker (called conditional tags in RoboHelp). The conditional expression can be defined in single source layout....

[JainVivek]

FM_Window is an auto generated RH style if you have mapped the style to "Source". Please make sure that you applied the "No Output" option to the selected style.

[lrowls]

Apparently RH also ignores FM styles that only appear in tables. Weird. If I add text using the parapgraph styles into the body of the FM file, the styles are imported by RH (I had to add text to the pgf for RH to see it). But if the style is not used in FM anywhere but a table, RH ignores it.

Another show-stopper: Rows in tables are ignored by RH if multiple conditional tags are applied to the row. For example, a row is conditionalized with "A' & 'B' and you import the FM file applying the 'B' condition, the row will not show up in the table. If the row is only tagged 'B', it will show up. Other straddled rows that are tagged with a condtion other than the one used to import into RH will cause misaligned columns in the table.

[katie_barnes]

Thanks so much Irowls for your informative last post. Once I put the table tags in the main body, they showed up in Robohelp. Then I could exempt the bulleted tag in the tables from being a part of the auto-conversion to HTML lists and map it to a paragraph style that had the bullet but was properly positioned within the table cell. When I was all done, I removed the temp text from my FM files, but my style mappings remained in RoboHelp and the tables look okay now.

I would like to have better control over the output for tables, but I guess I can live with this for now.