Topic converts to book in merged TOC

Question

So, I have two HTMLHelp projects, A and B. I'm trying to
include B in A's Table of Contents - here's where I am:
B is created and appears correctly when viewed alone. At the
top level of the TOC is a book (which links to topic B1). Within
that book are topics B1.1 and B1.2 and a book (linked to topic
B1.3) which contains some other topics.
Before including B in project A's TOC, A looks fine. It has
books A1 and A2 with several layers of books and topics inside
each.
I am trying to insert B into A's TOC, as the first item
within book A1. This seems to work fine, except that the TOC within
the inserted B project changes. B1.1 is now a book instead of a
single topic, and B1.2 and B1.3 are within that book.
I have tried changing the order of topics within B and it
doesn't help - whichever topic is listed first within book B1 turns
into a book, and all other topics get moved into it.
Does anyone know how I can fix this? If what I'm asking isn't
clear, I can email a couple of screenshots that should help to
explain things.

Answer 1

Hi, Cédric,
I'd recommend that you download FAR and try adding the
Include statements to your .hhc files with that. FAR is available
from this address:
http://helpware.net/FAR/index.html
After you've started FAR, select Authoring > TOC &
Index Editor, open the required .hhc file, and then select TOC >
Include File to add the required slave TOC at the appropriate
place.
I believe that RoboHelp may suffer from the same bug as
Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop: both tools appear to write the
Include statements at the wrong level in the TOC hierarchy. See the
"Known Bugs" section of this page:
http://helpware.net/htmlhelp/how_to_merge.htm
FAR is free to use for two months, but you must pay $49 or
thereabouts for a licence if you want to use it beyond that.
Pete