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That's how it is. It all comes down to what Flare puts in the file data\Alias.xml in the output. It always includes a NAME value for the text identifiers, so they always work, but if the header file isn't present for build, the ResolvedId value is a big negative number (so references to values don't...

Thanks for that. On 1, as I won't be using the Alias editor (because I won't be using the Flare UI), I'll think about leaving it out. Actually, there isn't really a true project to leave it out of - the build is being done by madbuild as part of a pipeline which creates/imports the various Flare fil...

I'm looking at the possibility of creating CSH with madbuild, instead of the Flare UI, which would mean maintaining various project files directly as text files. My questions are: 1. If I've sent my header file to my developer, does a copy also need to remain in my project at point of build, or is i...

Apparently enclosing it in a <span> works for HTML, but not PDF.

I find that with a long (scrolling) sidenav menu which syncs with the displayed topic, the sidenav link for the displayed topic always seems to be as close to the bottom of the window as possible. That is, a top-level item with four children will be five up from the bottom, and a second-level item t...

And now I've switched Page Layouts, it's gone back again! (On both layouts)!

Weird. I changed the PDF downsample setting, File|Options | Autoresize, and PDF/UA tagging, saved and rebuilt, then changed back and rebuilt, and now the image sizes correctly.

I have created a PNG at home that's 171px wide and at 300DPI. I'm trying to use it as a background image to a DIV, such that it's 1.5cm wide. I have created a similar one before, exact same size, same DPI, that looked crisp and clear and fits the width in the PDF perfectly. This one though, renders ...

If anyone's interested, I replaced the first 'w' with w to trick it.

I have a block of text that starts 'www.' It's not a URL at all, but Markdown import is adding a hyperlink to it, which obviously doesn't work. Because the source is being maintained in Markdown, not Flare, I don't have the opportunity to delete the hyperlink before madbuild builds output. What can ...

The plot has thickened. It only happens on projects run through madbuild. The styles as shown above work within Flare.

I have a global (print and HTML) stylesheet containing h1.nonumber, h2.nonumber, h3.nonumber, h4.nonumber, h5.nonumber, h6.nonumber { mc-heading-level: 0; mc-auto-number-format: '{ =0}'; } Called by a print stylesheet (via @import "global.css";) containing h4 { mc-auto-number-format: 'GH:{...

At the point of import, you are prompted with a list of files that would be overwritten. You just need to select the checkboxes next to them to overwrite them rather than create 'file_1.htm's before continuing to import.

Just bumping this query. I was expecting setting a vertical-align to it might have done something, but it doesn't. The auto section number stubbornly remains in the middle of however many rows in the ToC entry the section title takes up.

So if there isn't a way to have both an icon and a linear gradient at once in PDF, any suggestions for how I can do this? Bearing in mind I can't use a table, as I am mapping these notes from Markdown blockquotes to a DIV or a P or a class of either. For example is there a way to do a single page-hi...

Thanks for that info - maybe mobile devices shouldn't have immovable blocks of navigation elements anyway!

Wierdly, it only works when the site is full-size; when the window width is shrunk so that the responsiveness kicks in, the breadcrumbs go back to scrolling.

Thank you - I shall try that tomorrow!

The breadcrumbs proxy is at the top of the masterpage, putting it as a shaded box at the top of each topic. So it scrolls off screen in long topics. What CSS could I use to freeze it, so it behaves like a non-scrolling topic header?

I'm having trouble getting images in 2-column tables working in PDF (they work fine in HTML). It seems to be something to do with the width and max-width attributes. I want them to be shrunk to fit within their cell *if* they are wide. But if I set 'width: 100%' the big images shrink nicely, but lit...

That may well work within a topic, but I'm not managing to get it to work when the link is in one MD file and the destination is in another. Flare's import doesn't seem to be able to cope with that, at least not with the variants I've tried. Also, it converts the destination bookmark (as in my post ...

When you import Markdown, Flare converts ## This is a Heading Two to <h2 id="this-is-a-heading-two">This is a Heading Two</h2> If I wanted to link to that part of the topic from another imported Markdown file, what would I put in the Markdown, so that when both files were imported, the lin...

I am having a lot of trouble with legal numbering format in my print ToC. I am trying to get 3 or 4 mm of space between the autonumber and the chapter title (without hard-coding multiple spaces into my autonumber). Also wrapping long titles under themself, not their preceding autonumber. I find that...

I've found that if you associate your main stylesheet (so you can map to styles in it), it ignores the fact that you've ticked 'create new stylesheet'. It stops making one named after the import filter, and just keeps adding 'meta' lined to the associated one.

What worries me is that even if I did a script outside Flare that deleted everything (so that the import wouldn't need to check overwrites and would just redo everything) that would still leave the issue that instead of each import overwriting the marooned 'import.css' file, it would add a line to m...