html conversion query - columns

[Robert Lauriston]

You're using FrameMaker's built-in save as HTML feature? It's pretty
lame. If you have RoboHelp, try generating WebHelp.

Here's a cheat sheet on setting it up (the TCS documentation didn't
cover it properly when I used it).

http://lauriston.com/fm10_link_to_rh9.zip

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Cathy Giddens <Cathy.Giddens at qv.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi framers.
>
> I’m on Windows 7, FM10, all patched. I’ve got TCS 3 but quite frankly, I’ve
> forgotten what to do with the whole Robohelp side of it. I had ‘retired’ ie,
> quit, but came back for this project, to the company that purchased the data
> that I published for the previous employer for 19 years.
>
>
>
> Background
>
> Old job but for new employer, one year contract. I’m creating html, for a
> new website (containing book content which was previously hardcopy and pdf,
> access will be by subscription to more or less the identical customer base
> who were used to my nice pdf which had navigation home page, toc’s, chapter
> tocs, index, cross-references etc etc. I have learnt how to tweak a css
> sheet and keep a permanent version of it, rather than the fresh version
> created by FM each time, to overcome some of the unwanted style conversion
> issues. To overcome the blunt instrument that is the search facility on the
> website (key word searching only so if the exact phrase isn’t found, no
> result), I’m keeping the index. In FM this is in 3 columns, with a
> Framescript set of ChapterTOC  cross references for the A, B, C’s, creating
> a key to jump to the required letter. (The GroupTitlesIX aren’t part of the
> upload process so this is a workaround).
>
>
>
> My question
>
> How do I get the 3 index columns to translate into the html markup, so my
> index is useable instead of 1 column by 6 metres long on my screen (that’s
> 20 feet). The css sheet only covers the content style, the column
> information gets dropped out altogether. The markup in the html pages
> doesn’t seem to include anything relating to columns, according to the web
> designer who’s had a look at it. (One thought I had was to get the index
> populating into a 3 column table but this isn’t working).
>
>
>
> The css sheet will be ‘permanent’ so I can do some edits in there, if I only
> knew what. The web developers don’t know Framemaker, they’ve been working on
> the whole subscription side and writing the uploader that installs my html
> files to the website, and my input was only sought well through the
> project...
>
>
>
> Many thanks for any suggestions
>
>
>
>
>
> Cathy Giddens
>
> Quantity Surveyor
>
>
>
>
>
> Phone: +64 21 268 5289
>
> qvgroup.qv.co.nz
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