Topic changes heading levels

[Matt Sullivan]

Hi Jenny,

Interesting predicament...

I believe this nesting will be more for print purposes than Help, if I read
your post correctly.

If you are using structured Frame, the concept of conditionalizing your
extra layers of structure will be pretty straightforward. The context
formatting in the EDD could adjust on the fly when structure is
conditionalized

If using structured Frame is not an option, you might explore having a
QuickStart template and a Full Manual Template that make the headings appear
correct without actually changing the para tags.


-Matt

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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Judy
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 9:26 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Topic changes heading levels

I'm using Tech. Comm. Suite ( FM8 ver. 8.0p277 & RH7 ver. 7.02.001) to
generate multiple user manuals (a full manual and 3 quickstarts) as well as
CHM Help files.  (Windows XP SP3 if it matters.)

The challenge is how to best handle those topics that appear in more than 1
output, but at different heading levels--most commonly an H3 in the full
manual becomes an H2 in the quickstarts.

I've thought about:
 - Multiple conditionalized headings, but that would cause xref issues.
 - Building a container doc for each output where the headings are entered
directly but topic content inset by reference.  This may work, but I'm not
sure it's the best answer.  Does anyone else have any ideas?

Judy Bragg
Technical Writer
Hypack, Inc.
judy at hypack,com



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