Adobe RoboHelp 10: Ping the LNG

by Kevin Siegel  

I received the following email from a RoboHelp developer:

"Hi Kevin,

I've been developing user assistance in RoboHelp for many years and that means converting the sites every time I get the latest version of RoboHelp. 

RoboHelp does a good job moving things from version to version, but I have one small thing that occurs on old sites that I can't figure out how to fix. When I export an older site to Word, the Table of Contents heading exports as "Table Of Contents." Do you have any idea how to change it to "Table of Contents?" I can't find a place to access that title and change the capital "O" in "Of" to lower case. Do you have any idea how I can revise the heading?

Thanks for any information you can give me. This isn't critical, just annoying."

This person is referring to the Word document that results when you generate Printed Documentation via RoboHelp's Single Source Layouts pod. If you elect to include a TOC on the Section Layout screen, the TOC you created in the RoboHelp project will appear in the Word document.

  

There is a little-known area within RoboHelp where you can control the text that appears as the TOC heading in the Printed Documentation... the Language List file (LNG).

1. Choose File > Project Settings.
2. On the General tab, click Advanced Settings.
3. Select the LNG File tab.
4. Scroll down to the [PrintedDoc] section.
5. Select the TableOfContent entry and click the Edit button.
6. Edit the text to the right of the equal sign and press [enter]. 
    

When you generate the Printed Documentation, the heading for the TOC will reflect the edit you made to the LNG file.

 

Note: You can always restore the default settings to the LNG File by clicking the Reset to Default button on the LNG File tab (shown after step 6 above).

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Comments

[Jeff Coatsworth]

Hi Kevin - the LNG file is also very useful for customizing any text you want to see on your on-line help files too. I keep a backup copy of a customized LNG file for use in new projects to save myself time to go through all the custom wording I've changed.

[Karla]

I have an enterprise software product that have several modules. To keep the same look and feel, I was prepared to open each project and edit the LNG text separately in each. Because I am efficient (or lazy), I searched for the file that contains that info. Then I though, "Duh! I've seen a LNG file in ..\!Language!\en_US!. So I just copied that file into each project, then regenerated them. I would very much like to make my changes in the RoboHelp HTML files so I wouldn't have to make the change with every new project (or every new release). Do you happen to know where that file lives in C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe RoboHelp 10\RoboHTML?
Thanks,
Karla