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Are there any callback events that will be proposed during an applications lifecycle by Flare?

In Foundation 6 there is a "responsive-table" plug-in to add a scrollbar to tables if the viewport is too small to show them. But since Flare 12 uses Foundation 5 in the background, adding the plug-in brings unexpected behaviors. In Bootstrap you can simply add a .responsive-table class to make them ...

@Dave Just wanted to let you know that the tip worked. I've copied all default styles to a new file "default.css" and import them before my custom stylesheets – which shouldn't be necessary normally. Anyway, the styles now apply to the elements. Thank you!

/*<meta />*/
@import url('default.css ...

sing any more 'advanced' CSS is trial-and-error, since MadCap haven't produced a list of what CSS is or isn't supported in PDFs.

Well, I've submitted a bug. Hopefully they can clarify and fix the missing support for all kind of CSS features. I can only say that it's possible to support all kind ...

The main stylesheet in my projects only contains import links (and no CSS). It imports the default styles first, then styles for each medium.
Thanks for this tip, I'll try that tomorrow.

But, if something works in HTML, I expect it to work in the PDF build too since it just converts HTML files to ...

Dave Lee wrote:In that example, the imported stylesheet is being loaded first, and sets the colour to black. But, the CSS that follows the import is overriding that and setting it to green.

That makes no sense since I've used !important and if you look at the tmp files it'll also work?

Yes, it is set to "print".

To clarify the points you are confused about:

Not sure what you mean by this, but just be aware that what Flare calls a medium isn't actually a real media type and can't be used in a CSS media query.

By tmp files I mean the files that are generated to the temporary ...

I have some styles within a @media print{} block in a separate CSS file. I'm referencing this print file from within "styles.css" (default CSS file) like e.g.:


@import url('../CustomSkin/css/main.min.css') ;

@import url('../CustomSkin/css/print.min.css') ;

@import url('../CustomSkin/css/online ...

I've just found out that this is also a problem if you have other :not selectors like
it will be converted to
aaaaargh.. I can't work with such behaviors...

Alright, I have tried this with Flare 2017 and can constantly reproduce it. I've submitted it as bug to the MadCap team.

What version of Flare are you using? Maybe there's the difference.

Anyway, this seems to be a bug that should be solved by MadCap.

After running a HTML5 build, Flare modifies custom CSS files. It not only expands the styles when they were compressed, but also modifies selectors. This makes some of them invalid. An example:


html[data-mc-path-to-help-system="../"]:not([data-mc-runtime-file-type*="Search"]) .main-section ...

Hello,
related to this topic https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=26688 I would like to extend the "format panel" with a plugin to allow the assignment of multiple classes.
Unfortunately Madcap Flare support could not help me getting started.
At this time we do not have information ...

I assume that you agree with my findings. So I will think of an extension to allow multiple classes. I am not sure if this will cause side-effects, because I don't know why this has not been made possible.

I gave the TableStyle Editor a try. Great that such an helper exists. However, I don't think it is the right thing for my use case.
The reason is, that you can only apply one style format to a <tr>-element for example. Let's say you create one format that will add a green background
and another one ...

Yes I already know the "Attribute"-panel. However, it is not possible to assign the same class attribute to multiple selected elements. You need so select each th or td element manually.
Also, this only works if you know the class names or you have opened the "Format"-panel too.

I had a look at the ...

Well, this is a huge problem. My customers are technical authors without HTML knowledge, so this is an essential point.
I need to talk with our CTO and maybe think about an extension.

I'm shocked that this is not built in. On complex tables e.g. you need
- striped classes
- color classes
- border ...

In my example I have a table cell (td or th) and I want to assign multiple classes to it, e.g. a class to affect the background color and another one to affect the border color.
However, if I try to assign two classes the other one will be removed. I would need to go to the code-view and write it ...

jasonsmith wrote:I think you can insert an xref into the page layout, though this would mean creating and applying a different page layout for each chapter.

Thank you Json for you answer. The content of my documentation is about 500 chapters, so that wouldn´t be a good solution. Anything else?

Is there a Madcap-supporter who can help?

I would call again in remembrance:
Is there a MadCap-supporter who can safely say that there is no possibility to change the structure of the TOC (see example in the 1st post)?

I have a paragraph class p.PageBreakAfter with page-break-after set to always. You could simply insert such a paragraph after the TOC proxy. You might want to set space before and after and line-height? to 0 to avoid the TOC bumping the p.PageBreakAfter onto the next page. Oh, and don't div the TOC ...

If you apply page-break-before: always to p.TOC1 rather than to the TOCproxy, you should get what you're after.

If you apply page-break-before:always to TOCproxy, you will always have a page break before every TOC, which might not be what you're after.

Hope that helps.
I´d like to have the ...

The text font and size is defined in the p.TOC1, p.TOC2... etc styles. I don't think it's possible to put the numbers before the text, maybe you could put in a feature request.
thanks json. Does p.TOC1 have a wrapper? So for example I´d like to give the wrapper of the TOC a CSS-property, so that ...

Lydia wrote:What do you mean by "Flare doesn't understand this property." ? Are you not able to find it in the CSS or have you found and set it and it doesn't behave the way you expect it to?

Sure, I can apply all CSS-propertys I know, but I found out that min-height doesn´t affect the output in PDF.