RH8: Creating / updating bullet list style?

[jaggedpeak]

I'm getting lost. I have a project that I inherited.

• Amongst my list of available styles, I have two styles: ListBullet (which is a paragraph style) and p-ListBullet (which is a list style) -- In the Styles and Formatting pod, ListBullet has the paragraph symbol and p-Listbullet has the list symbol.
• In my .css file, I have an entry for p.ListBullet and an entry for LI.p-ListBullet (both show list-style="disc")
• Over in RH, in the ApplyStyle box, I see ListBullet (no p-ListBullet).

If I use ListBullet, I get a numbered list. (When I look at the html, it has created it as an ordered list.)

I figured, 'fine, I'll create a new style from scratch so that I can learn what I'm supposed to be doing'. I dug up the article below, and get jammed up because I don't think I'm seeing what I'm supposed to be seeing. (My problems are noted in red.)

My questions are (hopefully) simple-ish:

How do I create a list style in RH, and is there anything special I need to do on the .css side of things (I would think not, because that's just 'skinning')?

How can I modify the existing ListBullet style so that it works as a bulleted list (the way it's supposed to)? (There is a *lot* of content with this style applied already.)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Create a bullet style for a style sheet

1. Open the topic to customize a bullet style.  I assume this means any topic, so I opened one of my existing topics.

2. From the Format menu, select Styles. Okay -- this pops up the Styles and Formatting pod.

3. In List, select All Styles. In the listbox, I have 'All available styles' so I selected that.

4. From Available In, select an external or embedded style sheet. I don't see Available In anywhere, so I can't do this step. (Note: Over in my project manager, I only have one .css showing (bar.css).

5. From the Styles list, select a style and click the Create New Style button . Does this mean to select an existing style to use as a template? If so... okay.

6. Under Style Type, select Paragraph Style. Now I'm getting even more confused -- why a Paragraph Style instead of a List Style? I'm stopping here because I am well and truly befuddled. HELP?!

7. Type a name for the new style. The name can contain letters and numbers only and cannot begin with a number.

8. Under Style For Following Paragraph, select (No Change).

9. Click Format and specify settings.

[jaggedpeak]

Sorry for the lack of formatting and the absence of the 'red' text I promised -- it was there when I went to post, but it disappeared when the posting made it to the board.

In the procedure, I added my comments in steps 1 through 6. (Each step had one sentence - my content follows that.)

Sorry for the wall o' text.

[Peter Grainge · Accepted solution]

Take a look at the item about lists in Using RoboHelp 8 on my site.

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