options, i.e. small caps, bold, highlight). I thought it would be a
good idea to add this to a css file. When I added this to the file,
however, it seems to be only a paragragh style and not a character
style as I might have in MS Word.. By character style I mean
selecting a couple words and applying the style to those words ONLY
and NOT the whole paragraph.
Can anyone offer direction for this objective?
Thanks,
Dave
Dave,
I'm guessing you tried to add your new style to the style
sheet using the Format %26gt; Styles dialog. Most of RH's styles are
paragraph-level. The character-level styles are for things like
DHTML text. You can edit your .css file in a text editor, but if
you go that route, do so with a copy of your project first. RH has
its own mechanisms for coding styles in the .css file (open the
file in Notepad and you'll see what I mean), and I manually enter a
style only when I don't have any other option for what I want to
do. You can find all kinds of info online about how to create
styles in CSS.
Another caveat here is that RH seems to freely use the
%26lt;span%26gt; tag, which is the element you'd use for most
character-level styles. If you start specifying a span class for
bits of text within paragraphs, RH may get confused, and the
%26lt;span%26gt; tags may start proliferating like rabbits in your
code. I have seen %26lt;span%26gt; tags pop up like crazy in RH X5 and
6, but I'm still only trying out RH7, so I don't know if it's a
problem there.
So like Peter Grainge may say here, back up your project and
be careful if editing styles manually.
Hope this helps,
BenStyle Advice Needed
Ben,
Thanks for the reply. I'd rather not dig into the files
themselves at this point, I can opt to not use the font if
necessary, alternatively I could maybe put the text on its own
paragraph. Is there a macro function that I could use to format
selected text with several options?
Dave
I have to take back what I said about character-level styles
being just for DHTML text. It looks like RH6 does let you create
character-level styles. It seems to me that I tried to do that once
upon a time and couldn't, but perhaps that was with X5. See if you
have the option to create a new style in the Format %26gt; Styles
dialog with the ''Character'' style type and see if that gives you
what you want.
--Ben
Unfortunately I am still on version 5 and am uncertain when
an additional upgrade might be purchased.
To be clear, I can create a character level style in a given
topic but I want to be able to share this style created on one
topic with all the others.
Before you create a new style, make sure in the Styles dialog
(where all the styles are listed) that the .css file you are using
is shown in the ''Available in'' dropdown box. If you create a new
style with a .css file selected here, the new style is added to
that style sheet. This makes the new style available to all topics
using that style sheet.
From there, in any topic using that style sheet, you should
be able to select some text and find your style in the styles
dropdown box in the toolbar. If that dropdown isn't shown, you will
probably have to customize your toolbar so it shows.
Hi all
RoboHelp X5 should allow you to create character styles as
well. Any style you create will be available to any topic as long
as you create it inside the linked style sheet.
I have steps outlined in the link below:
Click
here
Cheers... Rick
Captiv8r,
I couldn't find the reference on your website but I do like
the wizard picture!
Anyhow, I ended up editing the default.css and just changing
the style from P.steylename to SPAN.stylename and that seemed to do
the trick. Thanks for all the input everyone.
Hi again
How odd. The link opens right up for me whether I'm using IE
or FireFox. What is the browser you are using?
Cheers... Rick
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