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Hi guys,
I'm gleaning whatever wisdom you've provided here for my sister and bro-in-law, who want to convert a book that was written in Word to an ePub format for Amazon. The two problems are:

1. What converts Word files to ePub without starting over from scratch? and...
2. Photos are a big part of ...

Thanks so much! Your explanation made it much clearer what happened and why. I'll have to go back and fix a few things, but going forward, I won't make some of the same mistakes.
Best regards,
Sandy

Hello again!
We are trying to clean up our print and online styles prior to combining them into a single stylesheet, free of unneeded and duplicate styles.

In addition to all my styles in the @media print section and the defaults at the top, the stylesheet (in a text editor) contains many duplicate ...

Thanks, guys!
I got two different approaches to the problem, and I may try both eventually.
One other question, though.
Last year, I used the style stacking technique shown to consolidate tags with similar values (see example below):

p.Note,
p.Cell_Body,
p.Cell_Heading
{
page-break-inside: avoid ...

Hi Propeller heads,
We are two writers (one does OLH, the other PDFs) in a small company, and don't have a CMS. Although our goal is to have one stylesheet for both deliverable types, at some point, we separated out our projects so I could mess with the templates without disturbing my partner.

My ...

I tried this, but I wasn't able to get the two heading tags and the line graphic to space properly when the Chapter title is short (1 line vs. 2 or 3). I'm sure it's possible to do, but I spent about 16 hours trying to get it all to work correctly, and either the spacing, the PDF bookmarks, the TOC ...

I feel your pain, Derek!

I have been working for weeks and weeks (surreptitiously) to create a Chapter Title H1 tag for my PDF that will:
1. Increment correctly in the TOC and the PDF
2. Create bookmarks correctly in the PDF
3. Look distinctive--specifically I want a large (72pt) Chapter number on ...

Thanks, whunter! I've tried several things that were *almost* the same, but I didn't realize that I could apply a span to the autonumber to completely not display, but still show in the TOC.
Next time I'm working on the problem I'll give that solution a try.
Best regards, Sandy

I have tried and tried and looked and looked...
This is regarding a "decorative" Chapter heading for PDF. I wanted a bold, graphic Chapter Heading that would show up correctly in the TOC and look just like a generic H1for online help topics. I tried every way imaginable to get that decorative ...

I joined this thread because I was hoping for a workaround solution for review PDFs.
This inability to create a PDF with changes displayed (before acceptance) is really terrible.
It makes verifying changes and reviews tedious and error-prone. I just can't believe they don't support showing Track ...

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Pamela,

When I select the variable, the span menu does not display. When I select the variable with the following space, the span menu appears, but the span only applies to the space, not to the variable.
Workaround:
I was able to apply the italics span from the code, and it worked in the PDF, but ...

Hi Lisa,
To answer your question, when the PDF renders, the cross-reference (Table 2-1) does not appear at all. When I added the text "Table" to the x-ref and just tried to pull in the table number (2-1), only the word Table appears.

I sent this question to tech support, and they responded with ...

Thanks for the work around, Techwriter31, but I am still hoping that Flare provides a more elegant solution.
Maybe I'll just make them links rather than cross-refs. Not sure if that will work, but I'm trying to get a draft out here...

Hi power users,

My default medium style sheet has Figure numbers and Table captions in the typical autonumber style
(T:Table {chapnum}-{n+}). When I cross-reference a Figure via a bookmark, it shows up OK, but the Table cross-ref doesn't pick up the caption's autonumber for some reason. Can ...

Thanks very much for your workaround suggestions.

Sorry--yes, I want the word "Step" above each number. Ideally, the step number would line up with the baseline of the step text that follows.
Step
1 a;lskdjf;alskdjf;alksdj las;dkfj alsd

Step
2 as;dlkf ;lakjdf a;lkfj ;lkajd f

etc.

Hi Lisa,
Thanks for asking. I tried to format it here the way I wanted it, but multiple spaces don't display.
I want it:

Step
1 blah blah blah

with proper spacing, of course, to line up my text.

Hey guys,
I've got a step autonumber that I would love to break into two lines:

Step
2

Like that. Anyone know if it's possible? Thanks!

Hi,
I want a paragraph or heading style that includes an "autonumber" icon that floats outside the text margin. I have looked around, but I am still not clear how to include an image into an autonumber format, either from the Simple or the Advanced view of the stylesheet.

Since I'm learning .css ...

I'm having the same problem working on the same kinds of PDF output, but in Flare 7.2. I'm running in Windows 7 64-bit with tons and tons of memory, so I'm upset that it sometimes takes me several hours to unlock all the locked files and fix whatever broke.
Is this a known bug?
I also notice that ...

Just wanted to share that I worked out the Rows.css bolded left column conundrum.
From the Table style editor Columns tab, I created a Custom column called Leftcolhead , set the separator for the same border line as the rest of the table, and selected Bold from the Font menu. Looks like that did it ...

Hi Ramon,
As I wrote that post, I was thinking about the four days it took me to get a Right-Left page header and footer table to work. In my MadCamp training, Neil told us to use a table for complex headers and footers, but it was more difficult for me than I expected. I have only a passing ...

Hello geniuses,
I am using the Rows.css table stylesheet for my tables, and I cannot figure out how to bold the text in the left column without losing the shading and borders in those cells.

[*]First I tried applying bold locally, but the shading and border lines disappeared. I cleared the ...