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Folks, a newbie question:
Ok, so, I’ve not had any training, and no books, just
the robohelp-html o/l help system. And I have some issues.
Problem: trying to load 300 pages of old documentation into
robohelp-html (webhelp format), to get it around, and get feedback
from folks on what/how to improve the documentation.
Media: the doc was done by various authors, at different
times, with different objectives. So, I have done the following:
- created word styles for heading 1,2,3, for body text and
for (un-numbered) lists
- converted the doc to these styles
- separated the doc into 12 chapters, each in it’s own
folder, extracting embedded pictures, and creating a toc for each
chapter (no page numbering, ‘classic’ style)
now, when I load a chapter just to test, I get a strange
result (or maybe, this is what it is supposed to look like?):
- chapter x has a layout sort of like this:
o H1
§ H2 with some text
§ H2
· H3 with some text
· H3 with some text
§ H2 with some text
o H1
§ H2
· H3 with some text
· H3 with some text
- when I bring it in to robohelp-html, using the word import
function (and I say create topic with H1), and running
‘generate primary layout’, I see:
o 2 ‘books’ in the toc, one book each for each of
the H1
o when I expand the 2 books, I get under the first box (the
first H1)
§ a ‘question mark’ box with the first H2
title
§ a book for the next H2 with ‘question
mark’ boxes for each of the H3 titles
o etc for the 2nd H1 book
- IS THIS THE FORMATTING I’M SUPPOSED TO BE GETTING?
Seems kind of odd, yet it clearly has structure.
I’ve tried various combinations when I do the import
function, but they don’t seem to alter much. And I could be
at this combo testing for quite some time – so I thought
I’d ask for some input.
Thanks, Ron
Thomas Phinney wrote:
Well, that is a serious, conservative layout, sure. I'm assuming the red text is instructions/suggestions from the teacher, and gets replaced by black text. Is that right?
Is the purpose of the business plan to attract investors or convince a bank or something? If it was, I'd probably change the typeface selection so that it wasn't all in Times. Nothing radical, but maybe a slightly more flavorful sans serif for headings, and a serif body typeface with a tiny bit more character. Could be for example Frutiger and Baskerville. Still pretty restrained, just not identical to most of the business plans they see.
But then again, I'm the guy who jailbroke his iPhone primarily to change the UI typeface, and asked the forum admins to change the default typeface here as well. So maybe I'm a little obsessive on this sort of thing.
Cheers,
T
Oh yes indeed, it's for investors who go through hundreds of Times-based business plans every day. I really like the way you worded things there, "still restrained, just not identical to most of the business plans they see".
Frutiger and Baskerville is a great suggestion! I'm open to more before I go ahead and buy myself a new pair of fonts though.
Much obliged!
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How should a professional business plan look like?
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Cheers,
T
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Purpose
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