html conversion query - columns

[Alan Litchfield]

Hi Cathy,

Long time no hear.

Would this be what you are looking for?

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_multiple_columns.asp

Regards
Alan

On 31/03/15 11:15 am, Cathy Giddens 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 <http://www.qvgroup.qv.co.nz>*
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