Re: HTML Help Workshop question

[Odile Sullivan-Tarazi <odile -at- mindspring -dot- com>]

Robert,

Thanks so much for getting back to me.  I have just now figured out 
-- well, a co-worker has figured out -- what the problem was.  The 
source files I am working with appear in three levels of folders, and 
instead of building the project in a file that was a sibling to the 
top-level file, I built it inside.  I did this because I have four 
distinct groups of source files, and I'd wanted the project for each 
one to live inside its own directore, in a folder that was sibling to 
the various folders for the HTML source.  Looks like that's not 
possible.  I sure wish the online help had made this limitation clear 
somewhere.  If it is mentioned anywhere, I couldn't find it.

Unfortunately, I am stuck with HTML Help Workshop for the moment.  So 
I'm soldiering on . . .

Thanks again for taking the time to consider my dilemma.  I'll never 
make this mistake again!


Odile




At 1:33 PM -0800 11/2/09, Robert Lauriston wrote:
>Spaces in path or file names used to cause errors.
>
>Does the [Files] section on the Project tab look something like:
>
>[FILES]
>*.htm
>myproject.hhp
>
>Do entries in myproject.hhc look something like:
>
><ul>
>	<li> <object type="text/sitemap">
>		<param name="Name" value="Introduction">
>		<param name="Local" value="introduction.htm">
>		</object>
>	<ul>
>
>I've always found using HTML Help Workshop directly frustratingly
>buggy. You might want to download and install FAR HTML:
>
>http://www.helpware.net/FAR/
>
>
>On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Odile Sullivan-Tarazi
><odile -at- mindspring -dot- com> wrote:
>>
>>  I am at my wits' end with a new HTML Workshop project, and I'm
>>  wondering whether any of you know what's going on with it.
>>
>>  I have added files to the project, and they display in the list of
>>  files in the Project pane.  When I add TOC entries in the Contents
>>  pane, everything seems fine.  The HTML titles of the files display,
>>  and I can select the appropriate file to be associated with the TOC
>>  entry.  But when I compile the project, only the table of contents
>>  pane is populated.  The files aren't there.  And if I open the .hhc
>>  file, again the table of contents entries are there, but unassociated
>>  with files.  If I try to add a TOC entry using this window (rather
>>  than the Contents pane), no list of HTML titles appears for me to
>>  select from.  If I double-click the TOC entry in the contents pane,
>>  the html file appears.  If I double-click the same entry in the
>>  window displaying the .hhc file, nothing happens.  No file.
>>
>>  I'm mystified.  I don't even know why there is a separate window
>>  opening for the .hhc file.  Why is there both a Contents pane and a
>>  separate TOC listing?
>>
>>  If anyone has any idea what might be going on, I'd love to hear from you.

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