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I just had a similar error in Flare 12, and the binary chop is the way to go. I made a copy of the file and cut and pasting things in and out. I was getting an error for Line 1 Character 4, and it actually was line 116. In my case it was a topic with a font setting that used Style instead of Class.

Can you copy/paste the definitions for the appendix styles from the CSS? We actually use the same styles for h2 and h3 in an appendix. So what I have for print (taking out the formatting and just leaving the numbering): h1 { mc-auto-number-format: 'CH:Chapter {chapnum} '; } h1.Appendix { mc-auto-num...

The A in the mc-auto-number-format is merely a sequence signifier -- it doesn't set the format of the number. You can have sequence A for appendix numbering, sequence C for chapters, sequence F for figures, and they can all show up as numbers. For my appendix I have in Properties in the TOC: Autonum...

If you just need a content review, you could build your target in a print format like PDF or word (assuming the engineers can access it). Obviously that has limitations -- for example, if your review site is set up for HTML, that might not work. Also they can't review how it looks -- there will cert...

You need to install an external tool for your source control package. For example, for SVN a lot of people use Tortoise, although I just use the command line and that works for me. All dedicated source control packages have a command/feature that lets you check the status of your local copy against ...

Did you accidentally turn off File > Options > Auto Suggestion?

This may be TMI, but here goes. Here are my styles for numbered paragraphs: p.Numbered_First { margin-top: 2pt; mc-auto-number-format: 'N:{n=1}.'; mc-auto-number-position: outside-head; mc-auto-number-offset: .25in; margin-left: .25in; mc-next-class: Numbered; } p.Numbered { margin-top: 2pt; mc-auto...

In addition, in your target, there is a flag "Exclude content not linked directly or indirectly from the target" (Go to Project Explorer > righc-click your target & select Properties > Advanced). If you link to topics not in your TOC, then they will still show up, but if you have insur...

I have not seen this error before. Having different styles for web and PDF will not produce that error. It also doesn't seem to be referencing a topic, so it's unlikely that it is bad markup in a topic (usually you will see warnings or even a failure in the build if there's a bad topic). Maybe you h...

One possibility: if you are creating HTML5 output and you don't have "Exclude content not linked directly or indirectly from the target" selected, then the outdated topics are being indexed for search. To turn that option on, In Project Organzier, find your Target, double-click to open Pro...

I don't know if this is your problem, but there are two versions of the editor. One has tabs for Text Editor and XML Editor, and another version does not. This second version says Text Editor in the upper left-hand corner and has only a few icons. It also has a different favicon if you are using tab...

There are different levels of troubleshooting. Have you closed Flare and rebooted your machine? Always the place to start. After that, the simplest thing to try is, if you are have a print medium and an online medium, and you are working in print medium, try switching to the online medium. Sometimes...

If you are using a character style, like Code, for your function names, you can set
mc-hyphenate: never;
for the style in the stylesheet.

Bonus tip: For code you can also set mc-language: none; and then spell checking will skip your function names.

Actually your numbers should be in the same stream. You have: H1: {chapnum} H2: {chapnum}.{n+} The H1 and H2 tell them they are in different numbering streams and shouldn't be paying attention to each other. You want something like: CH: {chapnum} CH: {chapnum}.{n+} Where the prefix is the same for b...

I don't know if this is your problem, but tables do have a little gotcah. When you first create a table, all the cells are plain table cells (td), with no paragraph style. so you won't see the number, because the default paragraph style can only be applied once you have a paragraph. Try clicking in ...

I suggest you look in the text editor. Take out anything about height or font-size in any of the rows in this table. I've had trouble with row height getting hard-coded in the HTML before. You could also post the html for the table, we might be able to see if you have an error somewhere. Is there te...

does anyone else have this problem? Whenever I open a project in Flare, I always forget that Flare highjacks the user interface on my system while it opens all the files in the project. This means that if I go to another program and start typing there, Flare will take the key presses and insert them...

it depends a little on your source. Sometimes with a diff, you get false hits on difference because the XML file has changed even though the actual output is the same. I'm not quite sure why this happens, but I think one case is if you display in different output types (online vs. print) and then sa...

you would change it to: div.Note { background-repeat: no-repeat; border: solid 1px #404040; border-radius: 6px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px; color: #424342; background-color: #c7e6f9; padding-left: 50px; mc-auto-number-format: '{b}{color #424342}Note: {/color}{/b}'; ...

Try the Insert key on your keyboard.

I didn't get it to work either - the table lines came out badly. But if you want to put the tables in different topics, you can use snippet conditions. To do this, you would put the whole table in a snippet and then add conditions to each row. You would have a table with four rows: table Condition1 ...

The SVN binding is just a few lines in the .flprj file. Copy over the project and rename the .flprj file as suggested above (delete the Analysis and Ouput folders before copying, it will go faster.). Close your project. BACK UP your .flprj file then open it in a text editor. In the CatapultProject e...

To see/change the page break settings for a table style: Select your table & go to Table > Edit Style. If all you see is the Preview, you may have to drag the top section down to display it. This can be tricky, because I always drag the line that is next to Preview. You need to drag slightly hig...

Go to Project > Reports to open or create a report. In the top half, you see a huge list of sections with selections, most of which are unchecked. Scroll down to the File Tags section, select "Files with File Tags". click Generate to run the report. I don't use this, but it will probably s...

I have a special heading style, h1.Contents, which has the following style added: mc-heading-level: 0; To set this in the editor, open your stylesheet in the Stylesheet Editor, create a new class from h1, then in Properties, select Medium: print (Or whatever your print medium is) Show :property Grou...