Troubles with RH's transformation of FM figure titles' & table captions' formats... Same problem?

[Burtin]

Source agent:  FM 9.0p250, unstructured

Transformative agent:  RH 8.0.2.208

OS:  WinXP Pro V. 2002 SP3

CPU:  Core2 Quad @ 2.4 GHz

RAM:  3.25 GB

Free Space:  12.6 GB

File Sys.:  NTFS

Swap: D & E (system-managed)

Is anyone else experiencing problems with RH not correctly transforming FM figure and table titles? I can get most of my design to work, but I am having a problem with RH not following-through with some of my table title format and figure title format specifications.

I am having problems with RH not correctly applying, or inconsistently applying, figure title and table caption attributes ("Paragraph" settings) that I specify through Project Settings | Import | Edit | Conversion Settings.

For example (in FM Table Designer), I have a table title paragraph design, "TT.Table Title", in which I specify Title > Above Table, and specify a paragraph design (FM style) of Arial, 10pt, regular, bold, 0" indents, alignment left. It works fine direct to print or PDF; the same is true with figure titles.

In RH (through Project Settings | Import > Edit | Conversion Settings [FrameMaker Settings] > Paragraph), I specify that the FM style is to transform through an RH style that I define (through Edit Style button > Styles > Format > Paragraph). I set the alignment, etc., as is required through RH, but when I look at the Design view and/or generate the output (say...Webhelp), RH has not correctly interpreted one or more of my specification's attributes.

For example, in the case of my table titles, in Design view, RH has centered the title (or in RH terms, the ''Caption") above the table. Or sometimes the bold attribute is missing. In Project Manager, if I right-click and select View, the title/caption sometimes appears as specified; however, if I Generate the WebHelp (or HTML Help, or whatever), the bold formatting isn't there.

I thought that maybe RH defaulted figure and table titles to a Caption, as that is what it calls that part in the Design view. But when I set Caption to my specs, it made no difference.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

The test is whether or not your RH styles are behaving themselves when you use them in a brand new RH project (not pulling in anything from FM). If they look right, then you know the issue is in the FM to RH part. If they misbehave, then the issue is RH alone.

[Burtin]

The problem lies in RH's handling of table caption objects. I have logged a bug for it.

If I move the title out of the caption part of the FM table (for example), making it like any other paragraph style, the transformatting that I have specified for the paragraph format is displayed as specified in RH. If I move the title back into the table again, the problem reappears.

[Peter Grainge]

I may be off at a tangent here as this is a wild guess.

HTML recognises Table Heading and Table Text, RH does not recognise the Table Heading selector. Maybe with your knowledge of FM's table caption and that tidbit of information, you can change something in your FM table to avoid the problem, if indeed there is a link.

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[Burtin]

I could also avoid the issue by using (in FM Table Designer) the 'No Title' setting and inserting a table title paragraph tag above each table. That would raise another issue, though, because then I'd lose the table caption attribute for Section 508 compliance, forcing me to post-process line-edit the output HTML to add that information. And that's one of the pitfalls in RH's existing workflow I am trying to avoid (or minimize to the greatest extent possible, anyway).