Making PDF topic titles independent of TOC titles

[Olivier Beltrami]

I try to make my TOC as concise as possible, and then I change the CHM topic to be longer. For example, in my TOC I might have the following structure :

Tokens
|------Day
|------Week
|------Month
|------Year

The title of my help topic for Week would be "Week Tokens", not simply "Week". I can make the CHM and HTM topics differ from those of the TOC, but in the PDF (where the tree structure is usually not synchronized) I am left with "Week" as a topic ... not very informative.

I understand that part of the problem is that the CHM header is RTF, but then could we have a separate plain-text field where the PDF/Printed topic title could be adjusted ?

[Alexander Halser]

Olivier,

does the TOC of your (good) example automatically expand? The PDFs created with H&M do not expand in Acrobat (and I do not even know whether this is possible at all), but the current position is highlighted and bold.

[Olivier Beltrami]

does the TOC of your (good) example automatically expand?

Ooops !

I looked at my PDF proposals from 1999 and 2000 and they were set to full-auto-expand, so the syncronization was good. But these were 10 page documents. For my 650 page manual, I really do not think that full-auto-expand is appropriate.

Sorry for this.

[Olivier Beltrami]

It seems we discussed another one of my posts, but never really discussed the original post at the top of this list.

[Alexander Halser]

The thread seems to have been scrambled. I just have no good solution for your request, Olivier. The headings in the manual are a very different information than the topic header: while it is guaranteed that even chapters without text have a heading, only topics have a header. Even if there were a variable like <TOPICHEADERTEXT>, where would you put it in? This variable would be empty when a chapter without text is printed resp. it would be filled with the topic header from the next topic.

If your help structure looks this way:

Top level chapter without text
---Sub-chapter without text
------The actual topic with header

The printout (if using the topic header instead of the headings) would be:

Header of topic
---Header of topic
------Header of topic

Not a really good solution...

[Olivier Beltrami]

I was not looking for an automated way of having H&M generate these headers. Just the possibility, like we have for CHM and HLP topics, to manually change the header text from the default value (the value of the TOC)