Margin Notes & Graphics

[Moosegolfr]

I am having trouble figuring out how to apply margin notes and graphics for dicumentation. I understand how to exclude them from the online help generation, but I do not see an easy way of creating margin notes or margin graphics for the generated document itself. Does anyone have some idea on how this is done?

[Kathy_T_Casey]

I have several different styles that create text in the margin in my Word output using Frames. I use them for 'Trainer notes' etc.

You need to define a style in your Word template with the appropriate formatting (e.g. Frames etc) and then use a style in RoboHELP which is then mapped to the template style.

The style in RoboHELP doesn't need to have any special formatting - just so long as it is mapped to the style in your template.

Hope this helps.

Regards

[Kathy_T_Casey]

I have several different styles that create text in the margin in my Word output using Frames. I use them for 'Trainer notes' etc.

You need to define a style in your Word template with the appropriate formatting (e.g. Frames etc) and then use a style in RoboHELP which is then mapped to the template style.

The style in RoboHELP doesn't need to have any special formatting - just so long as it is mapped to the style in your template.

Hope this helps.

Regards

[Roger_N]

Moosegolfr -

Welcome to the forum. I gotta know - in what format are your source files?

[Moosegolfr]

The pages I'm dealing with in RoboHelp are standard HTML. I would like to output a PDF that contains a margin note. My batch output is WebHelp and PDF.

[Captiv8r · Accepted solution]

Hi Moosegolfr

If I'm understanding you correctly, I think you would accomplish this using tables. You would have two columns. One used for Margin Notes and the other for text. You could then use Build Tags/Build Expressions to hide or show the margin notes.

Just a thought... Rick

[Moosegolfr]

Awesome - once again Captiv8r . I just finshed doing as you said and it was exactly what i needed. Thank you.