Creating a number list question

[sneedhearn]

Even though I have not made any changes to the CSS file, when I select the numbered list option, the number are of different and larger font (see second list below) than they used to be. Is there a line in the CSS that I need to change to enable my lists to look the first list in the attachment? I have been going through each list and selecting Bullets and Numbering/Custom and selecting the paragraph style, but that's cumbersome

[Peter Grainge]

Something must have changed. Have you perhaps upgraded to RH8? You need to define the font required for the numbers in your OL tag.

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[niann0rth]

I have done that and updated the OL tag but this results in the text in the numbered list shrinking when published or viewed but not in the wisiwig editor. (We use 0.8em as our standard font size). I have tried every combination I can think of and we are just going to have to put up with numbered steps where the font size in inexplicably too large in the published output.

[Peter Grainge]

Create a new project, one topic and using the same CSS. Show the problem in that topic and explain again in it what you want.

Zip it up and send it as shown in the Contact page. Include a link to this thread.

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[niann0rth]

I'll try and post it on Monday when I get back to work, cheers.

[niann0rth]

Peter

I have sent that this morning.

However I'm yet to recieve my copy of the mail so I'm not sure it is on its way yet.

Thanks again.

I have mailed the zipped file to you again via my yahoo account hoping it gets to you this time. Cheers.

[Peter Grainge]

I hope you received my offline reply. I have your output but I need the source files.

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[niann0rth]

I'll zip the project up and send it to you, thanks again.

[oreniny]

Hey guys,

Any updates in regards to how to avoid the resizing issues in the lists?

We're having the same issues with out set up.

Thanks.

[J__Korak]

We've had this problem too – Intermittently since R4.   I do not have an answer for you; however, I’ve noticed that the published font size varies according to the user defined, MS Explorer specified text size. (View -> Text Size) ...on some of our lists.

[dsarig]

The solution that I found was to adjust the CSS in RoboHelp:

1. Go to Project Manager > Project files.
2. Click on the css file and the Styles dialog box opens.
3. Open the Other section and click on "Lists".
4. Set the Font and Size there.

Good luck,

Debbie

[niann0rth]

That does resize the font of the numbered list but also makes all the text after that smaller. It appears to be a problem with RH in that it has some issue with using EM as a text size. We will have to live with slightly larger text for the numbers.

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

A solution for your problem would be to add

LI P {font-size: 100%;) OR LI P { 1em }

to your CSS. Every standard paragraph will take the font-size of the parent element (this is normally done trough inherit, but IE doesn't support that hence the workaround). If you use special paragraph classes in lists, such as Number, add

LI P.Number {font-size: 100%;) OR LI P.Number { 1em }

and so on. This will still allow you to use a different font size in a span.

If you define an EM for an element nested in another element with a font-size specified, the em is relative to the font size of its parent. In this case, the pargraph font-size is relative to the list item font size. Always set a basic font size (in em, percent of px) for your style sheet if you use em. See also http://css-tricks.com/css-font-size/

Greet,

Willam

[oreniny]

First of all, thanks guys for being so helpful.

I'm reinstalling, creating a new project, getting a fresh cup of joe and hoping to get dirty with CSS code 😉

BTW, is it just me or did the good folks at Adobe drop the ball on this release of RH?

[Peter Grainge]

They applied XHTML standards because people shouted about compliance, now you have compliance and people are shouting about how that works.

Adobe were damned if they did and damned if they didn't.

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[MergeThis]

The bullets and numbers are controlled by your css settings for UL and OL.

Good luck,

Leon