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Doesn't work. Appears in the TOC no matter what.

Nope. The heading MUST appear in the TOC or it doesn't appear in the header.

Madcap says it's a known bug. sigh. just sigh.

And it has to be a heading that appears in the Content. I've tried setting it to level 5 and then telling my TOC proxy to only go 2 levels. The heading vanishes AND the text still appears in the TOC.

Dammit.

Yup, Nita, that's the issue. Genius. Thank you about a million times.

Sigh. What appearing the heading appearing in the Contents has to do with whether or not the text gets picked up in the Headers is beyond me. I'm reporting it as a bug. There should be no relationship.

I've not tried it yet, but I bet this is the reason. The h2 don't go in the Table of contents so I have them set to not appear.

I'll test but it would never ever occurred to me that not having the h2 in the Content would impact them appearing in the headers. Never.

I have one topic with no H1. It's marked as a Chapter break. In the PDF, for that topic and only that topic I get the H2 in the header.

I've tried putting the H1 on the right page and the H2 on the left. Only in the topic with no H1, does that H2 show up.

What I'm seeing is
if H1, then show H1 ...

Created a new pagelayout, based off the Responsive template that ships with Flare.

Left the default Chapter number in the heading. Added any level heading variable as the second line. In the PDF, I got 2 instances of the Chapter number. No h2 or h3 appeared, despite many of those in the topics ...

Changed the background color to red, the red appears on the PDF. I'm using the right page layouts.

What's weird is I can't get anything - no heading levels, nothing - to appear in that second line. There are many headings and not a one will appear in that second line.

Anyone have time to look at ...

And yes, there is room for the text in the second line. I've expanded the header box to really big to check. Nothing on line 2.

I need right and left pages to have in the headers in the PDF output:

H1 (Chapter name and number) (got that)
H2 (the name of this section) (can't get that)

On the second line, I can't get any heading text at all. I also can't get the title of the topic. I really can't get anything in that ...

The client is not going to like fiddling with the Word output.

Grrrr. There are so many clients who have very valid reasons why Word is an output. I wish this worked better. 2 out of 3 clients recently want Word as a valid output and want it to look like it should.

I have a client for whom the Word output is key. I have a lot working but I'm totally stumped on getting the Word TOC formatted correctly.

The number of the chapter should NOT have any leaders and have NO page number. I've set everything I can find and I get the page number NO MATTER WHAT.

I ...

Anyone get this one figured out? I have a client who needs this look in some of their tables.

The client is hoping that their many many equations would come thru as equations and not graphics. Graphics are all I've gotten so far.

Anyone know how to do this?

For example, my Chapter numbers are coming through as superscripts instead of the correct font size. My page layouts are not giving me the right headers, despite separate page layouts correctly defining this stuff, specified in the Target.

Everything is defined correctly in the stylesheet medium ...

When you output to Word, where does the formatting for the Word document get decided? It should come from the CSS style sheet but which medium? I specify the medium I want but that's not quite what I'm getting.

I'm not getting the formatting I'm expecting in the Word output and I don't know why ...

Woohoo! Found it!

In the TOC, in the Properties dialog box, there is a place where you can specify the name of the output file. It has to be set manually for all chapters in that TOC but after it's set, it's set for that TOC.

Now, I still can't generate a Wod output without Flare reporting the ...

Actually, there is nothing to be done that changes the name of the Word output file names. Not a single thing I've done changes that name in the slightest. The Word docs will be named the same as the topic.

Nor can I actually generate Word output in Flare 10. Same project that worked perfectly in ...

The client also delivers Word docs (for actual good reasons) for their books. Each Word file historically has been prefixed with the chapter number. They want to continue that practice, because it's what their audience expects and wants.

Bleck. :cry: I really wanted to be able to programatically ...

I have a client who needs Word as an output. Each topic level 1 in the TOC needs to be its own Word file. Flare does that nicely.
HOWEVER, the client needs the files to include pre-pended numbers:

01Firsttopic.docx
02AnotherTopic.docx
03Yetanother.docx
and so on.

Their manuals can run 50 to 75 ...

of course, right after I posted, I figured out the header things.

Anyone have thoughts on the numbered text in the PDF bookmark list? The client will not accept that.

2 more things =

In the PDF, the chapter number is the top level PDF Bookmark AND it shows the numbering format text, not the text that appears on the PDF page. For example, it shows:
Computer <b><span style="font-size: 36pt;" class="mcFormatSize">1</span></b>

It should show Computer 1

The other ...

Nite - Wave!

I've been solving some interesting issues for this client and it's possible I stare at things too long. I know I'm the only one!

Aha!

If you set the page number format to Text, it works!

Thank you Nita!

Sharon Burton