Creating Checklists

[phanna]

Hi,

I have to create a checklist to put into my webhelp output. I've been searching around to see how I can create the actual checkbox icon and I can't find information about how to do it. I'm not too css savvy so that could be why.

Any help is welcome.
Thanks

[GregStenhouse]

You could use a graphic, or the unicode character for "Ballot Box" as follows:

1. In Flare, Insert>Character>Select Quick Character
2. Enter the unicode code 0x2610
3. Click OK
4. Use the shortcut key F11 to enter the character.

HTH
Cheers
Greg

[phanna]

Exellent. Many thanks Greg!

[LTinker68]

For future reference, here is a reference list and links to a bunch of unicode characters. Don't know if they work in all outputs or for all languages (just found the list and haven't used unicode characters much before).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_symbols

[doc_guy]

Hmmm. I wonder if you could add that to the style sheet so that you could just apply the "checkbox" style to a paragraph, and it would act like a bulleted list and include the checkbox character instead of a bullet. I'm not sure how CSS works with unicode, though I imagine it should work...

[LTinker68]

Tried that. It's translated as straight text, so the paragraph would be preceded by 0x2610 instead of the checkbox. I don't know if that's standard for stylesheets or a problem with how Flare reads info from the stylesheet. I know Flare doesn't like it when you use a * in the stylesheet, even though that's supported by CSS. So I don't know if stylesheet files are normally supposed to be able to parse unicode and named entities. It would be really nice if it could.

[DurtyMat]

what if you added the unicode into the autotext field, you know, where you can create custom autotext, something like:

<unicode>####</unicode>

this is obviously an attempt at doing something, i have never tried ... ever. which you prolly picked up on with my unique <unicode> tags.

[LTinker68]

That's what I mentioned in my previous post -- it's treated as straight text, not code that has to be run.

[DurtyMat]

lame

[cbdebris]

Create a <span> style for the character.

I use check marks and other symbols in online help and PDF output. So my <span> style uses Zapf Dingbats. Works great.