Designing templates

A template is a collection of pre-designed files that are part of a project. You can design your own templates by modifying the generic templates provided by the program. There are two templates that you can modify — Custom1 and Custom2.

To design a template:

  1. From the File menu, select Open.

  2. Navigate to the RoboHTML program folder.

  3. Open the folder titled "Template."

  4. Open the folder titled "Custom."

  1. Click Open.

    The template opens. It looks like a new, blank project. You set up the default components to use in this set of files. Then, when you create new projects, select this template. All new projects you create will “mirror” the files in this template.

  2. Create and import topics, design style sheets, add images, keywords, glossary terms and definitions, TOC books and pages, and any other components that are useful for your template design.

  3. Save all the files and close the project. (You do not compile this project or generate any output formats.)

The next time you create a new project, select Custom1 or Custom2 as the template, and all the files and designs are automatically added for you based on how you customized the template.

Tip: If you need to make changes to a template, open the Template.mpj file and update the files.