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A lot of sadness remains, nevertheless. Not specifically by this one incident but just by the "generally suggested" happiness of "single source publishing".

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

...two years later the probable cause was detected: typing while Flare is starting up with option "Auto-Reload Documents"

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...

... 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?

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, ...

Yes, we do use table stylesheets also in the cases where the issues occur.

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 ...

@ 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:

We love this forum who can help a lot.

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.