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Hi Robert, You already have the structured content of the entire CHM. That is the table of contents (TOC) on the left. If you want a link list of all the topics in a topic just select everything in the TOC and press CTRL+C to copy. Then click in the topic editor and press CTRL+V to paste and it will...

Hi Berthold, A "variable" for text in the target position would be very difficult to define. How much of the text, in what position exactly, starting where, ending where? There is much too much flexibility there and whatever we implemented, 90% of all users would complain that it isn't wha...

My Manual Designer does not accept more than 2 digits. The program adjusts the color values according to my choice, but it does not let me insert a 3 digit color value maually. So when typing 127 the process stops at 12 and does not take the 7. I just re-tested this with the same version and it acc...

The program adjusts the color values according to my choice, but it does not let me insert the color value maually. How can I do it? >>>Hmm, that's correct. I hadn't noticed before that the color picker in Manual Designer doesn't allow numeric input. I'll check on that and get back to you Correctio...

The version of Zoom bundled with Help+Manual has a very high limit. I*m not sure exactly what it is, but it's way above your number of files. If you use the standalone version the limit will depend on the version that you purchase, because then the integrated version is not being used at all.

We've just published a beta version of Help+Manual 9.6.1 with a test option for handling DeepL's tag/paragraph splitting option. Currently, the DeepL AI translation engine will sometimes split XML tags in a way that cuts out the spaces between words, forcing you to edit the text manually after trans...

Did you notice my post which I published in the very moment when you uploaded your answer? I am afraid it got lost during the continuation of our thread. The indent in lists is controlled by the indent of the FIRST item in the list. By default, lists come with a standard internal indent, which is s...

Update: Even though I actually wrote this documentation, it was a while ago and I had forgotten about this additional option. You can also use the loader script included with HelpXplain to embed your Xplains in a web page, and the user can then press F11 for full screen view when they open the Xplai...

By the way: You definitely never need to trash your topic and restart if something goes wrong with a list. You can always reset everything by selecting the entire list and hitting the List Tool. Sometimes you need to turn it off and on a couple of times to get everything reset but it's easily possib...

Hi Enno, Putting an Xplain full screen is not as simple as a video: Video files have full screen capability natively, Xplains are actually regular web pages. You have the following options: If you're publishing the Xplain in a Help+Manual page it's simple: Then you choose the Light Box mode and the ...

Do not try adding the bullet without removing the numbering first, or your whole list is destroyed and cannot be restored in any way other than discarding the latest changes and opening the last saved copy of the project. It's actually a lot easier: Click in the element that you want to change and ...

Hi Berthold, Unfortunately, bullets in lists are still problematic. This is a legacy issue that is still present in the Help+Manual editor. In the long run we are probably going to have to make some special additions to the XML schema for them, but that isn't going to be possible before the next maj...

BertholdL wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2024 4:35 pm I guess, this function is only for a rough overview how the exported topic looks like, without details like toggles. Correct?

That's correct. It's not designed to be used for production output.

This most likely has nothing to do with the skin directly. You probably have a topic in your project with the word "index" as its Topic ID. That should be avoided because it will cause all kinds of conflicts in HTML output, where the index.html file is generally required as the main landin...

Sorry -- I had forgotten that this was a new addition in 9.6.1, which isn't out yet, but which I'm using. If you want to use it right away with this you can download the pre-release version with this link:

https://www.helpandmanual.com/download/ ... p-v961.exe