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

[Robert Lauriston]

If it's useful in the help, why is it not useful in the PDF? I don't get it.

I'd say you're migrating the source from RoboHelp to FrameMaker.

I have PDF and OLH conditions defined in my user guide / online help
FrameMaker source. Things I want only in the PDF use the PDF
condition, things I want only in the online help use the OLH
condition. My build script automatically sets the conditions for each
output.

I actually use those conditions in only one paragraph of a ~900-page
document, where I'm giving people instructions on how to navigate a
reference chapter with ~400 entries using the bookmarks in the PDF or
the TOC in the online help. If I could put context-sensitive links in
the relevant part of the application I wouldn't need those conditions
at all.

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Steve Whalley <WhalleyS at kssfuels.com> wrote:
> 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.