Sunday, March 28, 2010

Advice on bulleted lists?

In my FM manual I use two tiers of bullets, which I often use together so that the second tier is nested within the first. The only differences are that the first tier is not indented and has a solid circle Wingding bullet and the second tier is indented and has an empty square bullet. On conversion to Flash Help using RoboHTML 7 they don't behave properly whatever I do. The first tier is okay but the second tier is not fully indented (the bullets themselves appear in the same position and in the same style as the first tier's) and sometimes the second tier bullets appear correctly, sometimes they don't, and sometimes they behave as if they were the first tier (as if their FM style was actually 'Bullet 1' rather than 'Bullet 2' even though in the document the styles are correct.

I've tried reformatting them in fmstyles.css and also the .css files for each individual chapter but they still behave in odd ways. Any tricks I'm obviously missing here? Also, selecting bullets from Robo's 'gallery' when formatting Styles makes no difference: the gallery buttons never appear in the compiled Help. Any insights greatly appreciated.

Simon

Advice on bulleted lists?

Inspecting the HTML for one of the problem topics, I noticed a %26lt;/ol%26gt; tag about a paragraph too early. I've moved it manually and the results are fine. But when I resave the FM manual and regenerate the problem returns. I've no idea why this errant tag gets placed there. S

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