I'm relatively new to RoboHelp so I've been pouring over
these forums to answer my questions, but I've never posted a
question myself. I'm having a couple of different problems right
now generating the printed documentation. I think most of my
problem is the styles and formatting, but there are a few other
things I was wondering if I could get some help with:
(1) My project uses a ton of tables for formatting. The
tables look OK in RoboHelp, but then when I generate it to MS Word
the tables are all different widths. Some are really skinny and
some are so wide they come off the page. Others are just fine. When
I look at the table properties in RoboHelp and compare the wide or
skinny tables with the normal tables everything is exactly the
same.
(2) Oddly enough, and I'm mentioning this in case it's
related to #1, when I generate to printed documentation a bunch of
weird spaces are added to my word document inside tables. For
example, I may have a list of steps (1, 2, 3) and entered down in
between the steps but then when I generate to printed documentation
rather than 1 line down there are a bunch of spaces so some steps
start on the same line or are indented oddly because there are
spaces instead. In RoboHelp there are no spaces, but if I look at
the source code the spaces are definitely there. Why does this
happen, what can I do about it, and is it related to my weird
tables in #1?
Since I'm on the topic of printed documentation, I'm also
having a problem with some topics double printing one right after
another. I don't know if this is a conditional build tag thing, but
maybe. I'm using several conditional build tags (printed, online,
client1increment1, client1increment2, and client2). Seems like if a
topic has 2 tags it's printing twice?? I haven't been able to
verify that as I only looked at a few topics that double printed,
but that was the case in the few I looked at.
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