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Subject:Glossary does not appear in HTML Help From:hedley_finger -at- myob -dot- com -dot- au To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 16 May 2001 15:42:30 +1000
Jean and other Microsoft HTML Help/HTML Help Workshop/RoboHelp experts:
We are creating on-line help by exporting FrameMaker files to HTML Help
*.htm, *.hhc, *.hhk, *.hhp, etc. files with mif2go. This process is going
well.
I opened the *.hhp project file in RoboHtml to add a glossary and created a
couple of dummy entries in order to see what file was created. This turned
out to be a simple *.glo text file with the format
NAME=term1
Definition for term1.
NAME=term2
Definition for term2.
etc.
We already had a glossary in FrameMaker format so, with only a tiny amount
of skulduggery, we were able to export it as a text file, remove the
group-title headings (A for the A entries, B for the B entries, etc.),
remove some extraneous tabs, and merge multiple definition paragraphs into
single paragraphs under each term. Beauoooootiful!
The glossary even shows up okay in the Glossary tab of the RoboHtml
Explorer
development application. But when we compile and open the *.chm file,
there is
a glossary tab but NO GLOSSARY CONTENT! Yes, we have already installed
the HHActiveX.DLL both in the \winnt\system folder and, for safety,
included it as a baggage, and also copied it to the same folder as the
*.chm
file, registered the *.dll, and restarted Windows 2000. Still no glossary
...
Anybody have any ideas? Please reply direct to the email address as
well as extending this thread.
[Windows 2000, FrameMaker 6.0p405, FrameScript 1.27C01, Enhance 2.03,
Acrobat 4.05.2, mif2go 31u33, IXgen 5.5.h, HTML Help Workshop 4.74 build
8702.0, HTML Help 1.31, RoboHelp HTML 2000 build 133]
Regards,
Helpless in Seattle
(Hedley)
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MYOB Australia <http://www.myob.com.au/>
P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia
<mailto:hedley_finger -at- myob -dot- com -dot- au>
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