Using Named Styles

Additional to being able to format entire paragraphs, named styles for paragraphs can be created and saved for later use.

This is especially useful whenever a paragraph style is likely to be used more than once. As well it saves additional storage space because the style and its attributes are not stored with each paragraph. Instead it is stored in a separate and central location within the project.

Creating named styles

To save a style for later use

Note: Style names should be entered without capital letters, without blanks and without using charagters other than a-z and 0-9 as well as the underscore character ( _ ).

Note: If a name is chosen, for which a named style already exists, this style is updated with the new settings.

Applying named styles

Once saved as described above, style names are listed in the paragraph style combo box in the toolbar of HelpExpert. To apply a named style

How named styles are maintained

HelpExpert automatically creates and maintains one cascading style sheet (CSS) with each documentation project . The style sheet automatically is linked with every topic and contains a set of default styles upon creation of a project.

Whenever a style is created as described above, HelpExpert automatically saves it to the style sheet associated with the documenation project.

Note: Although it should only manipulated with care (or not manipulated at all), experienced users can access a documentation project's style sheet by opening file 'style.css' in the project's root directory (the directory, where the help set file .hs is stored).

Note: Although it is not relevant for working on the documentation project within HelpExpert, it should be noted that all named styles are maintained as classes of HTML tag <P>. Thus styles such as 'Heading 1' are not stored as HTML tag <H1> as usually done in HTML files.

See also

Formatting the content

Setting character styles

Setting paragraph styles