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The feature to have a table generated when you have numbered steps is great, but would be MUCH greater if we could edit the text IN SnipSVG and have the table be generated automatically with text in H&M. As this is XML in some way other readers could also make use of the text. The text is alrea...

Hi Michal, We don't currently have plans to have HM projects "proofread" by AI chatbots. Most of our customers are professional technical authors and if at all, they would work in the opposite direction, correcting the many errors and incorrect and misleading fabrications in content genera...

Hi Birgit, Interestingly, when using the help on my Android mobile in horizontal format, the page header is visible. Is that a phone or a tablet? What browser are you using? Some non-Chrome browsers on Android can behave strangely. On Samsung devices in particular it's generally better to set Chrome...

Now I have a last question - when I press ALT+H, there is still a page header with Help+Manual Design. How could this be switched off completely? The content there is just a placeholder for your own content. It would be better to put in your own logo with link to your main page etc., instead of jus...

Hi Andrew, The toggles used in HM's documentation are actually just some additional styling within the Help+Manual project itself. Basically, you just define a paragraph style for these headers with a background color, border and a hanging indent for the toggle icon. In addition to this you use cust...

Later: Please ignore this, my mistake! I had the Topic Anchor set to the Anchor 'Data Folders' instead of to 'top of Topic'. Publishing from PP5 Toolbox works fine. Sorry to bother everyone! No problem -- posting to support tends to be the best way to find the solution yourself a few minutes later....

Very nice to be able to specify an external image editor in latest release. This has always been possible, ever since Help+Manual 5, I think. 8) However, when I use MSPaint, the image does not update after editing and I have to navigate away and back to refresh it. Please refresh the image after a ...

I was hoping to get a "middle-of-the-screen" popup of the screenshot as happens in an image toggle, rather than an "inline-with-text" appearance, as happens for text toggles (my text links will be in the middle of a bulleted paragraph). Is this possible ? Not with a text link, b...

Hi Olivier, This is easy to to because the link for dropdown text toggles is not a paragraph. Create the toggle, put your screenshot in the toggle table, then move the toggle link into the paragraph above the toggle table. There can also be one paragraph (preferably empty) between the paragraph cont...

Hi Michal,

This was actually announced in this blog posting:

https://www.helpandmanual.com/news/2024 ... elpmanual/

The sole purpose of this is to make table components more easily identifiable for screen readers and other related tools.

Hi Birgit,

Edit the skin in Toolbox and choose the Header & Footer variables group. Then change the value of the HEADER_MENU_TYPE variable to HM_NOMENU.

Hi Mike, There is a config variable for this. Edit the skin in Toolbox, select the Variables button (it will be selected by default when you open the skin) and choose Color Settings as the filter in the dropdown menu next to the variables groups dropdown. Then select the Dropdown Menus group and edi...

Styling hyperlinks like this for HTML output can be achieved with a few lines of additional CSS code in the skin you are using to publish your project. The standard WebHelp skins included in Help & Manual and the Premium Pack skins already contain this code, you just need to edit it for your per...

Can you bundle WebView2 with eViewer per Distribute your app and the WebView2 Runtime? It's a little problematic because of its size (over 150mb) and the need to continue supporting the EXE eWriter version as well, with the viewer embedded in the help file. WebView2 is now rolling out slowly in Win...

Some pdf files are linked, while others are not. ... When going to the published document, most linked pdf files have yellow icons and can be opened, while others have no icons and therefore do not open. I'm guessing that you actually mean embedded in the PDF here when you write "linked",...