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I just upgraded from TCS 3.5 to TCS 5.
I use FM as my source and RH WebHelp as my output.
My numbered lists all start at 0 now.
Before I upgraded, In RH 9 (TCS 3.5), I created RH Styles and used the following numbering format:
Format: <x>
Numbering: decimal: 123
Prefix Style: None
I mapped my FM style to the RH Style.
Numbers worked fine:
Now, they are all zeros:
When I open a topic and look at the HTML page, it has added this: start="0"
If I delete the start="0" text and then click back on the Design Tab, the numbers appear:
Where is the 0 coming from? I can't find a setting anywhere.
Thanks.
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Are you linking or importing? How are your list para tags being handled in your Conversion Settings?
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I am linking to the FM Book File.
I make any necessary changes in FM, and do not manipulate the RH files.
My FM tags are:
Example from FM file:
In RH, I created similar styles:
This worked prior to the upgrade. I'm confused.
Here's the CSS content:
Thanks for your help.
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Sorry, missed your screenshots there before – how does the HTML behave if you create a fresh topic in a new RH project using those defined number styles? Is it sneaking in the same start=0 thing? If so, congrats, you’ve probably discovered a bug; if not then there may be something messed up in the FM to RH linking. BTW – are you all patched up in TCS5?
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All patched for TCS5.
Adds the start=0 if I import the FM file, too.
Works correctly if I create a new topic and manually apply the RH styles:
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Smells like a bug then in the FM/RH integration. Report it to Adobe using this link - https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
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Thanks. Not what I wanted to hear, that's for sure. I submitted a bug report.
This is a huge problem for me and might prevent me from using the upgraded software.
I'll try the format as text option, but on first glance it didn't look like a great alternative.
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As a workaround you might just a FAR tool to strip out the offending “start=0” bits out of the generated help
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I was thinking of a script like the Reference Page Image Updater.jsx one I use for the reference page graphics to remove the text.
Is this what you are referring to? http://helpware.net/FAR/help/
I'll try that.
I do like some of the new elements of TCS5 and it seems to have cleaned up a cross-reference bug I was having.
I dislike dumbing down what I do in FM because RH can't handle it.
I already have to convert FM sub-steps to RH bullets because it won't restart the numbering sequence unless you manually tell it to.
I haven't 't looked at this release yet to see if they fixed that.
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That’s one flavour of FAR tool – there are others out there.
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I can remove the start="0" text with the Edit --> Find and Replace in Files feature:
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I received an answer from support:
We have investigated the issue and we have found a bug in the workflow for autonumbering. Fixing the bug will take some time. For now, I can suggest you a workaround. In your source Document, I can see the Autonumber format for various paragraphs (e.g. NumberedListFirst, NumberedList, etc) have redundant < =0> formats. These specify the restart number of the next level list. < =0> means the next level list will start from 0+1=1 which is the default case so you don’t need to specify that in the format. Removing all these < =0> from your autonumber format strings will fix the issue.
My Numbered List format = H:<n+>< =0>< =0>< =0>< =0>\t
I'll try changing to this and see what happens: H:<n+>< >< >< >< >\t
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Removing ALL of the =0 does not work in FM.
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Think I'll stick with search and replace for now.