TCS2 Inline graphics hidden by conditional text cause unwanted carriage returns

I have some FrameMaker documents where there are some small icons in the text. Their anchored frames are set to be "at insertion point" in FrameMaker. They work fine normally, but when the icons are hidden by conditional text, they cause unwanted carriage returns in the RoboHelp output. The text is split into different paragraphs in the middle of the sentence.
For example, this is the FrameMaker input:
And this is the RoboHelp (WebHelp) output:
I notice that if I manually edit a topic in the RoboHelp editor, I can manually apply a conditional tag to an inline graphic without causing a line break.
So, I'm wondering if there's a way to avoid this when using linked FrameMaker documents.
Thanks,
Philip.

Your logs are generated automatically by your system as it runs - there is nothing further that you need to do. They are ordinary text files, so you can display them on a terminal using any of the usual tools - cat, less, grep, etc.

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