Re: Winhelp: Pages following books in TOC

Subject: Re: Winhelp: Pages following books in TOC
From: "Poster" <Poster -at- aurora -dot- cotse -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:55:46 -0500 (EST)


Dana Worley said:

> This is essentially a WinHelp bug. If you have a topic that is defined
> on the same level as a preceding book entry in a CNT, the topic is
> displayed at the level of the topics in that book.
>
> So, for instance, consider this TOC:
>
> 1 This is a topic=topic1
> 1 This is a heading
> 2 This is a topic under the heading=topic2
> 2 This is another topic under the heading=topic3
> 1 This is another topic=topic4
>
> "This is a topic" will be a stand alone topic in the TOC. "This is a
> heading" will be a heading with two topics underneath. However,
> "This is another topic" will display on the same level as the two
> preceding topics, even though it is coded in the CNT with a 1.
>
> Depending upon how deeply your TOC is "nested" you may be able
> to open the CNT in a text editor and assign a number that is one
> less than what it should be (however, that wouldn't work in the
> example above...).

Wow. You completely saved my bacon. Thanks tons!!

~Poster


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