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a[href^="ncp_"] { CSS configuration here }
End string:
a[href$="_ncp.htm"]
Start string:
li[hf^="ncp_"] { CSS configuration here }
Is this a potential use for the "Convert to chapter without text option" when right-clicking on a TOC entry? I see that this is 'deprecated' and 'not recommended' so I hesitate to experiment.
Tim Green wrote:On a more general note, you'll find that with time you will do less and less of these "cool additional details". I can absolutely understand the enthusiasm... As a general rule, the simpler everything is, the better.
Dave Gehman wrote:engineers are masters of 'creeping featurism,' ...and simple is rarely an objective.
Simon_Dismore wrote:What a glorious slur on engineering!
Joking aside, there might be a genuine UX argument for distinguishing "concepts", "training", and "reference". But if that's worth doing, you should carry it through everywhere as a unifying design principle, not just have a line separating the TOC sections. You might want different icons or text/background colour, in all the content links as well as in the TOC, with a matching colour scheme for topic headers etc. That would give you flexibility to interleave concept, training and reference material, rather than divide it into three monolithic sections.
I think Tim's topic naming CSS could take care of almost all that. And if you went for the full version of Zoom indexer, you could index the search text by category.
Dave Gehman wrote:Do I have color available in the WebHelp TOC?
Simon_Dismore wrote:continued from my previous post
Dave Gehman wrote:The process might be a step too far if it has to be redone with each new Publish sequence or H+M revision update
Dave Gehman wrote:I yearn for simple UI-based switches available on a right-click on the TOC
It should be possible to apply custom classes and/or data-attributes to mark up any object in H&M, e.g. TOC captions (Topic Status should be published as a class too), media, tables, linked snippets, styles.
Martin Wynne wrote:.... Which means you can write a Windows utility exe...
I'm currently writing a utility to add mouse-over tooltips from a text file to the TOC items. It would be possible to add functions to provide coloured backgrounds, separators, section headings, etc.... It will be useful for my own work. I will post it here when I'm done if anyone is interested. I know Dave wants the mouse-overs.
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