Hi, all. I'm using FM 10 and RH 9 on a Windows 7 system.

I see that there are at least two ways to chunk .fm content into separate .html 
topics when you import a FrameMaker project into RoboHelp:

1. When setting up the import of .fm files, set the pagination value to a 
heading level; topics begin at each new instance of that heading level.

2. Create custom markers to identify the beginning of a topic. Question: How do 
you indicate the end of the topic?



I've found that with technique #1, because subheading levels do not follow a 
rigid scheme in our unstructured documents, I have to use a lot of conditional 
text and some additional paragraph tags to fool RoboHelp into combining several 
subsections that it wants to separate.

I haven't tried technique #2. Does anyone use it? There has to be a way to 
indicate the end of each topic you mark -- can you tell me what it is? Given 
that you can scope out topics in the .FM file, I assume there's a lot less need 
for conditional text. Do you find this to be so? Are there any pitfalls to this 
method?

Is there any other approach to chunking text that I'm missing?

Thanks for all advice. 

--Nancy

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