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luviola10
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January 9, 2012
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Topic numbering in RH8

  • January 9, 2012
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I'm researching the value of numbering my topics in an RH8 project. I have a call center guide for very technical professionals and it was suggested to keep the numbering of all topics, for example, 1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, up to three digits. I wonder is this worthwhile to do? Is it possible to do in RH8?  So instead of labeling a topic Introduction, it would be 1 Introduction, etc.

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Anonymous
January 10, 2012

I don't see a way to do this directly in Robohelp (veteran users: please correct me if I'm wrong about that). But you can do it in Word or Framemaker and then import it into Robohelp.

For instance, you can set up outline head numbering in Word so that your headings look something like this:

You can then import that into Robohelp and get this:

Learning to set this up in Word is not especially easy, but it might be worth exploring. The Robohelp import step is quite easy.

Something similar can be done with FrameMaker.

If neither of those is available, unfortunately, I don't have an answer for you. In that case, perhaps someone else with more Robohelp experience can help.

-- George

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luviola10Author
Inspiring
January 10, 2012

George,

Interesting! I wonder if this would work with linking as well?

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Anonymous
January 11, 2012

Luviola:

The results of a quick test tell me that this approach probably will not work with linking.

Or perhaps I just don't know the proper procedure. In any case, it doesn't work the same way as it does with importing.

When importing Word files into Robohelp, you can "paginate" (break up the file into Robohelp "topics") based on Word heading styles. That's the feature I used in my testing yesterday (the results of which are in the screenshots above).

I can't find a way to paginate when linking. If you can't paginate, this approach is not likely to work.

I hope someone else will join in here with a better answer.

-- George

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