Put HTML code: & #8209; ‑ a non-breaking hyphen into a webpage.
Display the webpage. The hyphen displays.
Copy and paste into HM4 topic. A box displays. (Except in Lucida Sans Unicode).
Publish the HM4 topic to HTMLHelp & Browser-based Help. The hyphen displays.
Publish to Adobe PDF. A box displays. (Except in Lucida Sans Unicode).
Publish to Word RTF. A box displays. (Except in Lucida Sans Unicode).
The RTF file has \U8209 where it should have \_ to be compatible with Word.
In Word, this can be remedied by a global replace of the box character by ^~
Non-breaking hyphen: errant behavior
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If you are copying and pasting from the web page back to H&M this may not work. HTML codes will not work in PDF, RTF and Winhelp -- these are non-HTML formats and all inline HTML is ignored there.
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Hmm... I really don't understand your problem and nobody on the development team does either, perhaps it's a misunderstanding. Quote from our lead developer: "I don't see the problem. When you copy and paste from a web page you are never copying HTML, you are copying RTF that the browser (e.g. MSIE) is copying to the clipboard. Copy and paste in the editor can only handle ANSI text, Unicode text and RTF. We can import HTML when we read HTML pages but not from the clipboard."
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That would be nice but it's less trivial than it sounds because it would really mean doing a full compile, including merging the topic with the appropriate HTML template etc. You can actually already achieve this quickly enough by compiling to Browser Help with the "Selected Topics" option in the Compile dialog. This will compile only the topics that are currently selected in the TOC.Winsteps wrote:Please provide on the HM4 menu bar: Topic > Display Topic as Webpage
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Thanks, Tim. Very helpful.
Click on the topic. Ctrl+F9 then OK does it after the first time through.
Modifying "Compiler options" to suppress messages helps the flow.
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Click on the topic. Ctrl+F9 then OK does it after the first time through.
Modifying "Compiler options" to suppress messages helps the flow.
This is great because I can now quickly see how "Autosized" Tables will look to the user. (Noticeably different from how they appear in the HM4 editor).
This suggests a new entry in the Topic right-click menu .....