Can't change the default bullet

[Guest]

I want to substitute the standard bullet for a .GIF file that I have.

I understand from the diabolical Adobe help, that I have to make a new style and connect the gif to this. I would of course prefer that I could still use the bullet button in the RoboHelp interface, but in the absence of this I guess I could live with a style - if I could get it to work, but when I apply the style the gif does not appear - nothing does.

Any assistance appreciated.

Thanks,
Marc Honore

[Peter Grainge]

Format | Styles | New

Then the Format button on the Styles dialog and select Bullets and Numbering.

Click the dialog with the folder icon and select your bullet.

Try using the offline help.

[Guest]

I did all of that before asking on the forum, and have tried it several times since.

[Peter Grainge]

I don't know how you did it as that wasn't in your post.

How about trying it in a new project with one topic. If it still does not work, zip it up and send it to me via my site.

You have selected the style in the dropdown list?

[Guest]

I have RoboHelp 7.02.001 and I am generating WebHelpPro

The style is called "bullet". Here is the code from the CSS:

P.bullet {
font-family: Georgia, serif;
color: #646f6f;
font-size: 8pt;
margin-bottom: 9pt;
margin-top: 9pt;
line-height: 150%;
list-style: url("bullet_grey.gif");
}
LI.P-bullet {
font-family: Georgia, serif;
color: #646f6f;
font-size: 8pt;
line-height: 150%;
list-style: url("bullet_grey.gif");
}

What also disturbs me is thta while fooling around with list formatting - sometimes in Robohelp no bullets appear, but when I generate they do appear. Not the .gif that I want but still..this seems like wacky and unstable behaviour.

[Guest]

I have got it to the point whre - with this style that the bullets are generated OK, but I cannot see them in RoboHelp - this is problematic.

[Guest]

The same goes for ordered lists - now the numbers do not appear in RoboHelp, but are visible when I generate the html output.

[Peter Grainge]

I just used your definition changing just the image name and it works fine. I suspect something else in your style sheet is causing a conflict.

First try just copying and pasting the bullet definition to one of the supplied stylesheets and then applying that to one topic in your project. If it then displays OK, it sort of confirms what I suggested.

[Peter Grainge]

Again, that sounds like a conflict. Wrong margins.

[Guest]

Thanks Peter, I'll have a closer look at this. There may be something in the style sheet, but it differs very little from the standard defautl sheet. I'm a bit out of my depth.

I suspected the margins might be an issue, but side-by-side with lists with no formatting - the margins appear to be the same.

[Peter Grainge]

Send me what I need when you are ready.

[MergeThis]

My CSS reference searches all say that:

list-style: url("bullet_grey.gif");

should actually read:

list-style-image: url(bullet_grey.gif);


Good luck,
Leon

[Peter Grainge]

Hey Leon, this is RH code. :-)

Being more serious, the code that Marc posted worked fine here and I think margins somewhere else in the CSS are causing the problem.

[MergeThis]

Oh, dopey me...