Mapping FM styles in RH7

I am using RH7 in the Tech Comm Suite and cannot figure out
how to map the FrameMaker style to styles I have created in a
custom style sheet. The list in the Style Mapping window always
defaults to the default.css. How can I get the list from my custon
style sheet to show up there??? There is nothing about this in the
RH online help.
I don't have much prior experience in RH so this might seem
like a basic question to some.
~Kim

Well, when RH creates the topic(s) that corresponds to the
framemaker file, it also creates a separate css file for EACH fm
file that it imports. Each .ccs file has a name that corresponds to
the FM file name. It appears to use the mappings you specify but
also creates other styles that it uses. If you also use other
custom styles (like for links), those are not added to the
individual css files that RH creates (making it difficult for your
site to have a consistent look and feel). I've been working on this
for several days, trying to find an optimum way to do it, and it is
a real pain as far as I'm concerned. (It's also driving me crazy
the way it codes the html for lists, but that's another story...)
One thing I'm trying now is to create a template for my RH
files, and have a custom fmstyles.css file that is used by it.
Then, in the Topics list, I select all topics at once, and then
apply this template to all (via "Properties" in the context menu).
That results in my custom css file being linked to all the topics,
rather than the individual automatically generated ones. Of course,
if I do an "update" on any of my topics generated from FM files,
then that application of the template will have to be done again.
Hope this helps,
Linda

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