TCS3.5 > FM10 to RoboHelp: Handling 'more info' help links in FM original

[Steve Whalley]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for your response.  To explain: we're not migrating anything, we're trying to mimic the presentation of the help we currently have (created directly with RoboHelp 9) in new single-source documents created using FM10 (for PDF output) then 'transformed' via RoboHelp 9 to produce the help output. So, in the PDF output we do not want to include the 'For more information see' references to help topics (which is what these links are).

Regards - Steve

Steve Whalley
Technical Author
KSS Fuels


-----Original Message-----
From: robert.lauriston at gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauriston at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: 28 January 2013 18:51
To: Steve Whalley; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: TCS3.5 > FM10 to RoboHelp: Handling 'more info' help links in FM original

I have TCS 3.5, save as PDF from FrameMaker 10, and generate WebHelp with RoboHelp 9. I have the same "see <cross-reference>" links in PDF and WebHelp, the only difference is that RoboHelp suppresses the page numbers.

It's not clear to me what you're trying to do.

"Currently have" makes it sound like you're migrating from something to FM10. What?

Why do you want the links to be conditional text?

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Steve Whalley <WhalleyS at kssfuels.com> wrote:
> We’re in the process of starting to use FM10 (as part of Adobe TCS3.5)
> to create user guides and (via TCS3.5 > RoboHelp 9) online help. One
> concern we have is, in FrameMaker, how to handle a ‘For more
> information see:’ list of links to other related help topics we
> currently have at the bottom of each help topic. The only way I can
> think of is to include a ‘For more information see:’ section in the FM
> template and deploy that (suitably completed and conditionally text-tagged) at the end of each perceived ‘help’
> section in the FM file.

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