A lot of sadness remains, nevertheless. Not specifically by this one incident but just by the "generally suggested" happiness of "single source publishing".
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- Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:06 pm
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Vertical alignment of DIVs in page layout
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4250
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 10:49 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Mad Quality Plugin II
- Replies: 1
- Views: 520
Mad Quality Plugin II
Anyone using the awesome "Mad Quality Plugin II"?
We have started and would like to exchange experience.
For example: Anyone ever used XPATH in the context? We are struggling with this.
We have started and would like to exchange experience.
For example: Anyone ever used XPATH in the context? We are struggling with this.
- Fri Nov 19, 2021 6:53 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Who can tell me why?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1077
Who can tell me why?
I know that Flare is not responsible. But MadCap Flare wants to provide a tool for documentation that provides a professional look and at the same time they intend to automate so authors do not have to take care about too much layout issues in order to be able to concentrate on the content. So why t...
- Wed Oct 13, 2021 9:13 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Ancient print caption issues - still pending...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 701
Ancient print caption issues - still pending...
Why on Earth - although it would be the perfect feature, can't Flare offer a feature to avoid this? Some will claim that CSS can't do it. But Flare would be able to, if they just tried... With tables there is a "manual" workaround at least, but having to apply this for each and every table...
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:58 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: making <td> equivalent to <p>
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6077
Re: making <td> equivalent to <p>
If you're saying you want <td> elements to have the same styling as <p> elements, you can do that in your CSS. Find the CSS that has the <p> style you want to mimic. Right-click on it and select "Open with... --> Text editor". Find the <p> style you want to mimic and change the selector t...
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:08 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: New feature risk
- Replies: 1
- Views: 790
PS: New feature risk
by the way, this is not exactly about "new features" it is just about trying a simple feature for the first time. For example, if we decided to apply a CSS style to reduce font size of all table rows, independent from the complexity of CSS, we still would need to plan for a two week test p...
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:00 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: New feature risk
- Replies: 1
- Views: 790
New feature risk
Dear forum, I plan to use a Flare functionality that we never used before. My experience so far tells me that we will encounter a new bug with 95% of the functionality that we have not yet used before. The hardest challenge is to determine, whether this functionality is risky. Right now it seems to ...
- Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:59 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Insert Annotation
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7990
Re: Insert Annotation
and this experience keeps repeating with MadCap Flare for me at least - the Murphy of Laws ;) recently we decided to use the new 2020 feature of syntax highlighting but wanted to change the font size, which is very simple according to the documentation. Guess what we encountered first! A new bug tha...
- Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:44 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Insert Annotation
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7990
Re: Insert Annotation
Yes, that's what I also found the said 3,5 years later by pure interest of reverse engineering. The actual solution came to me beforehand by analytical reasoning. However, it is a very sad state of any product that issues like this can occur and I always want to trace back to the root cause also bec...
- Fri Jul 17, 2020 2:51 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Garbled prefixes unexpectedly appearing in headlines
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1214
Re: Garbled prefixes unexpectedly appearing in headlines
...two years later the probable cause was detected: typing while Flare is starting up with option "Auto-Reload Documents"
- Thu Jul 02, 2020 12:28 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Exclude items from broken link report
- Replies: 1
- Views: 799
Exclude items from broken link report
Can we exclude certain broken links from the Project Analysis broken link report? We have local links to PDF files in each manual's "Applicable documents" section. They are supposed to work if a customer puts all of the PDF manuals in one directory and this works well. However, Flare repor...
- Thu Apr 23, 2020 11:38 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Insert Annotation
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7990
Re: Insert Annotation
... 3,5 years later - That's pretty steep! Why on Earth is there an undocumented feature to disable GUI elements in Flare via the CSS and who could have set the default of the annotation feature to be disabled? We certainly did not decide to disable this feature in Flare when we started out as absol...
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 2:14 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Build Terminated
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1258196
Re: Build Terminated
For a few days now I run into a slight variation of this issue with 2018r1: The first few times after opening Flare, the PDF compilation works well but the second or third time it starts failing with exactly this issue ("terminated"). Cleaning the target does not help. I made sure that Ado...
- Mon Jul 08, 2019 10:31 pm
- Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
- Topic: Subtle layout changes independent from CSS in PDF
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1012
Re: Subtle layout changes independent from CSS in PDF
The root cause obviously was a conflicting font face and/or the unexpecetd behavior that Flare falls back on a font face with a similar name starting with the same prefix if the one with the exactly same name is not available. Uninstalling these fonts / font faces and reinstalling the desired ones s...
- Thu Jun 20, 2019 11:52 pm
- Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
- Topic: Page break mania in lists with images
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7381
Re: Page break mania in lists with images
Chocie, I will give your scientific experiment a try. Still, even if it works, wouldn't you agree that this solution is some kind of overkill for the trivial use case that we are trying to accomplish? I will let you know the result, when I have finished the negotiations of efficiency with my boss. A...
- Wed Jun 19, 2019 5:50 pm
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Auto column width heuristic and local resolutions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3426
Re: Auto column width heuristic and local resolutions
Thank you all for any suggestions. I will try harder, again and again. Still this is my QUESTION to the MADWORLD: I am already deep in the process of trying to find workarounds. I know that CSS and the inheritance rules are complex. What I will never ever accept and understand is that I cannot set a...
- Mon Jun 10, 2019 4:18 pm
- Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
- Topic: Page break mania in lists with images
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7381
Re: Page break mania in lists with images
The suggested solution was my starting point, where I first encountered the issue before trying to search for workarounds. List-break issue.png <body> <h3 class="Kapitelsubsubheadline">Installing certificates<a name="_Ref435767965"></a><a name="_Toc523842474"></a><a nam...
- Sat Jun 08, 2019 8:45 pm
- Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
- Topic: Page break mania in lists with images
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7381
Re: Page break mania in lists with images
Which suggested solution exactly do you refer to? Sorry if I cannot manage the suggested solutions anymore, I have 15 parallel issues going on in this forum. Actually I should only invest 4 hours per week in Flare issues but this has increased to 28 hours per week. My job is at stake. If I lose this...
- Sat Jun 08, 2019 8:34 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Insert Annotation
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7990
Re: Insert Annotation
Thanks Paul for the detailed observations. Indeed, I cannot verify my colleague's reports. However, I am sure that my observed behaviour is not caused by some unaccepted click selection. I tried all kinds of selections: One word, a whole <p>, a whole page etc. I am about to prove Murphy's law soon b...
- Sat Jun 08, 2019 8:19 pm
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Auto column width heuristic and local resolutions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3426
Re: Auto column width heuristic and local resolutions
I must admit that I don't know why I am "relying on Flare to do things" when I manually want to set a fixed width.
Is there anyone out there who could explain?
Is there anyone out there who could explain?
- Fri Jun 07, 2019 1:39 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Mad Overkill
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2454
Re: Mad Overkill
Thanks chuck_agari, I fully agree and had assumed in one of my posts that sth. like an underlying PDF engine could be the cause. Sad thing then is always the missing transparency. If MadCap listed current issues with their root cause being identified in other named, included third-party components, ...
- Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:24 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Auto column width heuristic and local resolutions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3426
Re: Auto column width heuristic and local resolutions
Yes, we do use table stylesheets also in the cases where the issues occur.
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 6:38 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Mad Overkill
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2454
Re: Mad Overkill
Thanks, doc_guy & Isleofgough. Maybe one other aspect is the fact that we are a team of two, only. However, I'd like to point out again one core statement I made: Too many trivial use case scenarios keep failing. How can I become confident in a product, where I want to use a trivial feature for ...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 6:25 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Mad Overkill
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2454
Re: Mad Overkill
@ ChoccieMuffin
I am totally aware of this and I do not criticize this forum in any way. Sometimes I wonder however, if I am not capable enough to specify my intentions. Please be aware of this part of my message:
I am totally aware of this and I do not criticize this forum in any way. Sometimes I wonder however, if I am not capable enough to specify my intentions. Please be aware of this part of my message:
We love this forum who can help a lot.
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:50 pm
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Unexpected Table Header Alignment-CSS Inheritance Conflict?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3011
Re: Unexpected Table Header Alignment-CSS Inheritance Confli
Just to summarize what I remember vaguely was involved in this issue: We migrated from MS WORD and there were some leftovers that we needed to clean up.