Importing anchor IDs from Winhelp

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Whe I import Winhelp formatted RTF project via .HPJ project file. All anchor links are imoprted as simple topic ids, rather than topicid - anchorid (target). This requires extensive editing of all calls to that anchor to correct this. :(
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Winhelp anchors are addressed directly in the same way as topics with an absolute ID. Help & Manual uses HTML-style addressing with topicID#anchorID. Because of this it is necessary to edit links to anchor IDs after importing them from Winhelp, because the link will be pointing directly to the anchorID as if it were a topic ID.
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Tks Tim, not good news :( .
Any way you can think of that I can pre-edit the input RTF so that these would get picked up? Any suggestion appreciated.


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Hi Tom,

Unfortunately this isn't possible at the moment -- there's no way to change the way anchors are coded in the Winhelp source. It's conceivable that a solution could be found but my suggestion would be to wait on pushing this one until after the initial release of HM5. The development team have so much on their plates at the moment that things like this will be on the back burner for a while. However, if demand is high enough I'm sure they'd be willing to turn their attention to it once the main release is out.
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Thanks Tim

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I understand, release-time is crunch-time.

Since H&M "knows" internally that a topic has an anchor in it, perhaps these references could be resolved at build time. Would need to keep a list of anchors just as topic ids are kept currently.

SIGH another WINHELP issue. :cry:
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