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Subject:Re: Including icons in online help? From:David Knopf <david -at- KNOPF -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 13 Apr 1999 07:33:37 -0700
Geoffrey Hart wrote:
| 3. Embed icons directly in the text, and accept the funky spacing.
| Has anyone come up with a good way to do this without mucking
| up the spacing?
Another alternative is to set the line spacing for your procedure step style
to leave enough space for the icons. That way, each step has the same line
spacing, regardless of whether it includes an icon. This approach works best
with steps that usually don't exceed a single line.
