Insert Carriage Return/Line Feed in Glossary Definition

[Guest]

I'm not sure if this is possible in Robohelp 10 or not, but I really have a need to insert a carriage return/line feed in a definition. For example, the definition could be like the following:

1. Initial definition as used in one part of the application.

2. Second definition as used in another part of the application.

I don't want to run the two lines together as it makes it more difficult to read (especially since we can't specifically format the text of the definition).

I tried inserting 
 
 in the definition, but when the project is output as Webhelp, it is converting those characters to non-breaking spaces ( ). I figured that would work since the GLO file is XML, and XML 1.0 supports the use of those ASCII characters. However, it seems that Robohelp doesn't. When I added those ASCII characters to the glossary file, Robohelp changed them to 
 
. When I directly change the characters to 
 in the XML and save it, then return to Robohelp, the glossary is completely gone since, apparently, Robohelp can't read those character.

Does anyone have a work around for this? Or is there another way to insert the line breaks?

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

As far as I know, RoboHelp will just remove line breaks.

To get what you need, I can only think of these options:

- Add two terms to the glossary, each which indicates the definition applying to the term in that specific context.

- Add an HTML file with your glossary to the project

Greet,

Willam

[Guest]

I figured that would be the case. I played around with all sorts of possibilities, but it just doesn't stick.

Although I don't want to include a glossary as a specific topic in the output, I may have to. It is just convenient to have a glossary to the side that can be viewed while not leaving the specific topic.

I have been experimenting with CSS pop-ups for glossary terms by making each glossary term a variable with the necessary calls to the CSS included within the variable value. That seems to have possiblities, but it could become a little over the top, I'm afraid.