HTML view: Line breaks in <span> tags inside ordered/unordered lists

[TorgeirH]

Hi

(using RH 8.0.2 on a RoboHelp HTML project originally created in X5)

For some reason RoboHelp insists that some of the span tags in my ordered/unordered lists should have a line break after <span. I have tried editing the code both in HTML view and in the htm file itself (removing the line break and extra spaces using Notepad), but RoboHelp always reverts the edited span tag (i.e. inserts the line break again).

I'm unable to detect a pattern as to where the line breaks manifests themselves.

The code looks like this:

<ol start="4" type="1">

            <li class="p"><p>Dobbeltklikk på ønsket forekomst i oversikten <span

            style="font-weight: bold;">Forekomster</span>. Dialogboksen <span

            style="font-weight: bold;">Rediger forekomst</span> vises.</p></li>

In Word, the the span tag looks like this: <span[space][linebreak][tab][space]style="font-weight: bold;">

Can the <li class="p"><p> tags be the culprits? I tried editing these to a simple <li><p>, and for some reason this seems to remove the superfluous line break in the span tag. Although I can't see why. There are similar li/p tags where the span line break appears.

My main reason for wanting to rid the code of the line breaks in the span tags, is for localization purposes. There are a number of variations of the span tags with linebreak, line feed, spaces and tabs. When translating with Trados/TagEditor, the translation software interprets each variation of a span tag as a separate tag, resulting in as many as 4 different types of bold tags. A common phrase such as "Click OK to continue." can therefore have 4 different variations due to bold tag variations. This dramatically reduces the leverage we get from our translation memories.

Any input will be most welcome!

Best regards,

Torgeir

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

RoboHelp tries to make the HTML code human readable. My guess is that RH probably doesn't line breaks after you remove class=”p”, because it then becomes readable on one line.

The easiest way would probably be to use a script/search and replace operation to remove all unnecessary line breaks, before you send the files for translation. (Backup your project first.)

Greet,

Willam

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[kelly_usa]

Hi Torgeir, did you ever find a solution for this? I am using Robo 7 and this problem is making my life much more difficult than it needs to be! Robo inserts a line break after every item that I have tagged as conditional. Thanks in advance!

[TorgeirH]

Hi

Unfortunately I never found a good solution for this. Willam's suggestion would work, but then I'd have to do spot checks across 500+ topics to verify that the text still displayed OK.

Good luck!

Torgeir

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

Removing line breaks from HTML files should not have any impact on the file, other than for the human readability. Unless you are using pre tags, you should be fine if you only remove the line breaks.

Greet,

Willam

[kelly_usa]

William,

My issue is that Robo inserts <br> tags after all my conditional images, so it does impact the way the topics display to the user. If I take them out, Robo puts them back in.

[Peter Grainge]

Is the image on a line of its own?

Are you selecting the image rather than the whole line?

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