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BJeppson
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February 18, 2012
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Why are my numbered lists changing formats?

  • February 18, 2012
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We upgraded from RH7 to RH9. Now all the numbered lists in drop-downs are messed up. For example, the look fine in the WYSIWYG view:

But when generated, this is the result:

The CSS reads as follows:

LI.P-DropDownTextSteps {

font-size: 8pt;

font-family: Arial, sans-serif;

list-style-type: lower-alpha;

color: #af2305;

}

In some cases, even the sans-serif font changes to a serif font and the size of the numbers changes. I have tried everything I can think of. I have spent countless hours and am really baffled.

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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February 18, 2012

Take a look at Lists on my site. There is a section about upgrading.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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BJeppsonAuthor
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February 27, 2012

I looked at the informationon your list, Peter, and it seemed to make sense. I followed the instructions (as I understood them) on your document "Make your CSS list styles work in RoboHelp 8" but the results were much worse than when I started, so I apparently am missing something. Because we need to support a number of browsers, I took the approach of cleaning up CSS files. Removing all definitions starting LI.stylename where the style is NOT used as a list apparently made things worse.

Somehow the answer is here, though. The margins and indents are fine. The font, color, size, and style of the numbers themselves has changed with the upgrade. The bullets are fine.

RH has more than one CSS. The changes I'm making are to our house CSS. Should I be doing them elsewhere as well? Or should I delete other CSS?

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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February 28, 2012

LIsts can now work in one of two ways.

  1. You can define everything via the list styles. Bullets, fonts etc.
  2. You can define part of the style via the list style (bullets) and part via a paragraph style that works with the list style (to define font etc).

The latter method is used when you have printed outputs as well as list styles cannot be mapped.

As you can see, a list style is required for any list to define the bullets. Why would you have applied a list style to any content that was not a list?

A project can have more than one CSS but a topic cannot. You will need to review all the CSS used in the project, which is not the same as all the CSS you may find in the project folders viewed via Windows Explorer.

Take another look and post back if still stuck.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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