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"...starting with an automated in-house HTML5++ pipeline that generates aria-* roles and uses <dfn> and <abbr> so your core functions can be linked from things that reference them..." means? If you were creating only web-based documentation (not PDF) and if it was mostly APIs etc., then y...

Hi Sean, glad it helped. Simon P.S. I appreciate you were asking this as a documentation specialist, but from a software engineering perspective identifying functions and parameters by inspection in a downstream tool like Help & Manual and then applying manual code formatting is a woefully old-f...

I would like the code to appear in the manual as it does on the existing help pages [e.g.]http://help.tracker-software.com/DEV/default.aspx?pageid=ViewerDLLSDK:f_pxcv_checkpassword Hi Sean I took a look at http://help.tracker-software.com/DEV/default.aspx?pageid=ViewerDLLSDK:f_pxcv_checkpassword. T...

with the code I am using it is problematic. Here is a sample: HRESULT PXCV_CheckPassword( PXVDocument Doc, BYTE* pPassword, DWORD PassLen ); That's a function declaration (for something like the PDF-XChange Viewer SDK ). I've tried pasting this into a C/C++ header in various IDEs and the only thing...

This is just a general problem with the MSGothic font. I just checked it on my Windows 10 installation and it cannot be selected for exclusion from the embed list, which means that it is not embeddable. I will check on this, but my guess is that you cannot use that font in PDF. Even when it is pres...

It would be helpful if manual formatting could be disabled to force the writers to use styles. In days gone by I wondered about having a single-topic editing tool – basically a radically cut-down version of the Pro editor – that contributors could use. I'd envisage it having only: File ribbon: Open...

We have hundreds of these items that are tagged with MapIDs, and would rather not recode everything with new calls. Why not change your existing loadMappingID function so that it opens your help the H&M way, something like this? <script> function loadMappingID(contextNumber) { var documentation...

Hi, When I am importing a .rtf document into Help and Manual everything is getting imported except the equation objects. I request you to please find me a solution where the equation objects should also get imported once I import a document. If you want them as objects I think Tim is correct they h...

Is this possible?! I can't find a way to do it and I don't fancy having to create multiple images of something just because I want to change the orientation! You could do this if H&M supported fragment identifiers in image URIs, as proposed here , e.g. like this: svg-image-wrapper-scales-and-ro...

Is [Rotating an image] possible?! I can't find a way to do it and I don't fancy having to create multiple images of something just because I want to change the orientation! This question came up today and it's another example of something that would work well with the fragment identifiers I propose...

A change to the behavior here has been experimentally added to the current beta That's great, thanks. After pasting a bare URL using the new functionality, I'd usually want to change the caption. Would it be possible to put the initial focus on the caption textbox rather than the address, with all ...

Tim Green wrote:In the past Help+Manual used to build the IDs from the corresponding topic headings

It still does in 7.2.0 build 4035. Please don't change it!

In my RTF imports, the topic IDs and captions come from the heading levels 1-3, with nested folders and topics being set up by H&M automatically from the outline level. This was a while ago, but I can't recall having to do anything particularly complicated to achieve it.

When I paste an Internet link (e.g. http://alistapart.com) into H&M 7.2.0, an object is created with the values: Caption : http://alistapart.com Address : <%LINK_CAPTION%> If I now wish to create a caption for this object, I must move the contents of the Caption textbox down to the Address textb...

Basically it's about the Impict-to-PDF pipeline. An IPP file stores text and shape objects as vectors but they are rendered at low (screen) resolution. No, Impict images are bit-maps, essentially. They just store additional meta information about the (text) objects, so that the objects can be edite...