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So if a snippet is used in four different topics, I have to change them four times? I cannot just change it once in the snippet itself?

Why are my snippets using other variables that I have set for the target? I have different product names which I set per target. I just found out that the snippets are not using them. By researching, I can see that I can change Snippet Variables per topic but I have not done that and do not want tha...

Thanks for all the tips and suggestions, I now have the correct IBM Plex Sans font on my front page. However, even though I styled this with a red underline, it does not have a red underline in my PDF output. Any suggestions?

Thank you so much! This is just what I needed

Hi all! You know how a front page of a manual is always a right page? Then we have what I call a preface page with some version and copyright info on the first left, then the TOC starts on the next right page. I have made my page layouts to this structure. I don’t use first right and first left, jus...

I also have a situation with the pagelayout which is strange. For many of my files, I get the message (I have shortened the path) BoxLayout: Missing page layout file C:\git\... \flare\Output\Content\Resources\PageLayouts\PrintLayout.flpgl PrintLayout.flpgl is indeed my default page, as set up in the...

Yes, indeed. I did find out that this was the case. The change in file association usually happens automatically, but I changed it for the flprj extension. Let's hope that it now works for all fl extensions. Thanks!

Hi!

I just updated to Flare 2023 r2 and both the caption and the About dialog tell me I have 2021 r2. And I still get the dialog where it is asking me to update. Anyone else experience this?

I have looked at this again and again and I cannot get my head around it. As far as I can see, the system described above is not for a context-sensitive help, rather for an online knowledge base like help. Is this correct, or have I misunderstood something? I cannot see how this is using multiple ta...

Thanks for the suggestion for doing it via CSS, great idea. Our previous tests showed that the code worked if you just copied it from the box without using the Copy button, so we will try and go ahead with this solutions.

Hi! The Copy button in code snippets is giving us problems. If you use it, it messes up the spaces or tabs or whatever you use. But if you just copy the code from the box, it works fine. So we want to remove the Copy button from all our code snippets. Anyone have a suggestion for doing this in a cle...

Thank you so much! I will experiment with your suggestions and see if I can get it to work

Edit: OMG, it works! This is awesome, thank you so much

Thanks for your input. I was thinking along those lines except the part about the REVIEW medium. I don't fully understand what a 'medium' is in the style sheet though of course I am aware of the non-print and print mediums and know how to select them for the output. So I created the Review medium an...

Hi! I am looking into have three or four different versions of a user manual based on conditions. I will create targets for each version, but 98 percent of the manuals are identical. For review purposes, it would be clever to create one pdf with all the conditions, where the paragraphs with conditio...

Wow, this is amazing. I can enter all the targets I want, semi-colon separated and it works. Thank you so much for this tip!

I need to do this a few time a year too and I have used the method of exporting all the targets I want and them importing them into an new project. I am curious about the method you are describing when you sat "Select the project to import and type in the specific targets that you need". H...

Hi!
I have just discovered this feature and wanted to use it instead of the the <pre> style. I thought I was doing something wrong until I saw your post.
I'm eager to hear about a fix before I convert loads of code samples to snippets that don't work.

Regards,
Vibeke

I can see what you mean about the indents. I am playing with an XML code, and the indents (tabs) display nicely in the Code Editor, but are not there when I click OK and close the Editor, nor do they display in the PDF or the online output. Also, the indents are still not there when you use the Copy...

Hello everyone! I have just discovered that Flare has a Code Snippet feature. I have used a pre styling with a monospace font and colored background for code until now but I think I want to go ahead and change our code examples to the snippet. But before I do so, I just wanted to hear if anyone is e...

Thanks for your suggestions!

Thanks David. The topics are included in the PDF, just not in the miniTOC. Thanks Nita. I meant "guys" in the US sense (you guys), sorry if you felt excluded. I am female too BTW. But I have also tried several depths too. The TOC depth setting was mentioned in the Flare help, that's why I ...

Hi guys, need help again! I have a topic in my TOC that has subtopics. I have inserted the miniTOC proxy in the topic itself and it works like a dream in the HTML output (even though I have not inserted anything in the master page). So far I have not managed to get it to work in my PDF, and now I wa...

I will try this suggestion and see how it works.

thank you!

Sorry for late response, I had other fires to put out… Right now, all my appendix topics just start with the H1 for the headers, and as I indent them in the TOC, the TOC does what it is supposed to do normally and adds the digit that is normally used for an indented level. If I didn't want the inden...

Hi all Need you help again! In a TOC, you can select the Properties and decide how the TOC will look. I understand Chapter Number, and I think I know what Section Number is (as I used sections when I used to work with Word). But I have no clue what Volume Number is and how to use it, nor can I find ...