Hi Matze,
You might want to ask GPT or Phind.com (my preferred helper) for coding assistance. Either AI may not provide code that works on the first attempt, but I've had excellent results with CSS/JS coding from both. Phind is much more current, too.
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- Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:26 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Cursor button shortcut for next or previous button
- Replies: 5
- Views: 216
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:23 am
- Forum: Getting Started and Installation Issues
- Topic: Setting up the process: Better to import from or export to other projects?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 368
Re: Setting up the process: Better to import from or export to other projects?
Hi Elin, You're getting confused by improper terminology. To put this in more common industry terms, The files in Flare that you're editing are Source files. When you publish PDFs, those are output files. There is no push or pull or export involved in publishing output from Flare (i.e., your PDFs). ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:00 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Image optimisation software (batch) recommendations?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1837
Re: Image optimisation software (batch) recommendations?
Hey, thanks Alex! I'd not seen those before that I can remember. Those are some great apps.
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Image optimisation software (batch) recommendations?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1837
Re: Image optimisation software (batch) recommendations?
If you're comfortable using GIMP, installing the BIMP batch plugin and compressing them in GIMP is an option. I had great success inverting screen colors of about 200 white on black terminal screen shots to make them more readable and to not eat so much toner. https://alessandrofrancesconi.it/projec...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Image optimisation software (batch) recommendations?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1837
Re: Image optimisation software (batch) recommendations?
If you're comfortable using GIMP, installing the BIMP batch plugin and compressing them in GIMP is an option. I had great success inverting screen colors of about 200 white on black terminal screen shots to make them more readable and to not eat so much toner. https://alessandrofrancesconi.it/projec...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: baseline for ordered list
- Replies: 3
- Views: 483
Re: baseline for ordered list
I'm guessing that you have separate p and ol/li elements defined. These will give you better control: /* affects all paragraph tags inside an li tag START */ ol > li p, ul > li p { line-height: 13pt; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0 0 3pt 12pt; } /* affects all paragraph tags inside an li tag END */ I als...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:38 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: baseline for ordered list
- Replies: 3
- Views: 483
Re: baseline for ordered list
Hi Nina,
If that's in the editor, ignore it. The output is true check of that alignment.
If that's in the editor, ignore it. The output is true check of that alignment.
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:20 am
- Forum: Styles, Stylesheets and XML
- Topic: Automatically update online copyright year
- Replies: 6
- Views: 733
Re: Automatically update online copyright year
Consider using a variable to hold the years. Then you can update them in one spot to please PMO whenever they decide they need something different.
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 10:41 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Basic concept for Flare projects with multiple source languages
- Replies: 1
- Views: 635
Re: Basic concept for Flare projects with multiple source languages
I think this might be a discussion to start have your MC sales rep and MC support. They'd have a better idea of what's possible than most users.
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Content change management on equal topics in multilingual Flare projects
- Replies: 3
- Views: 942
Re: Content change management on equal topics in multilingual Flare projects
Ah, now I understand. I'm unaware of such a feature, but that sounds very useful. Anything that helps make the output better is a good thing :D As a manual process, it would depend on the project structure (concepts/relationships/snippets/microcontent) and benefit by adding scripting. With all the f...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Code Snippets and JSON - Alternatives?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3943
Re: Code Snippets and JSON - Alternatives?
Great! Hopefully we'll have JSON syntax highlighting in 2024. Being able to easily add local overrides for styling to match corporate standards and the ability to add local keywords would be make it immensely more useful, but at this point I'd settle for real syntax highlighting. Screen capping code...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Content change management on equal topics in multilingual Flare projects
- Replies: 3
- Views: 942
Re: Content change management on equal topics in multilingual Flare projects
Hi Henk, I believe for the most part, Flare authors needing translation are using MadCap Lingo. It lets you make your primary language updates and then you export out all the text into Lingo where someone would handle the translations. Then you bring the lingo output back into Flare. That's a very, ...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:22 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Flare 2023 R2 doesn't seem to be replacing reserved characters
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1187
Re: Flare 2023 R2 doesn't seem to be replacing reserved characters
It might be time to move onto 23r3...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Moving tabs always undocks them
- Replies: 1
- Views: 466
Re: Moving tabs always undocks them
I think you're the guilty party this time ;-) But it could be your mouse, too. If that button's switch is getting flaky you might not notice it if you're only clicking around, but an operation needing constant button-down will notice. I'd start with another mouse. I'm able to shift tabs in the GUI w...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 8:02 am
- Forum: Central's General Discussion
- Topic: MadCap Central API
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5569
Re: MadCap Central API
Sorry, there is no API with useful Central calls.
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 7:58 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Copy linked files into defined folder when building PDF target
- Replies: 1
- Views: 19963
Re: Copy linked files into defined folder when building PDF target
Hi Tobias, Placement anywhere in the project is possible. The issue is how PDFs get published from Flare. Pre-generated PDFs aren't really part of a project, so Flare can only copy them to a new location. When you publish PDF output, Flare sends your published PDF file to the Destination along with ...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 7:23 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Image optimisation software (batch) recommendations?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1837
Re: Image optimisation software (batch) recommendations?
Hi Paul, I have no specific package for that purpose. I'm using GIMP to do everything except organize images. If you know exactly what you want to do to the images, make it a macro in GIMP and then you can use the BIMP plugin to perform batch macro operations on full directories. I've used BIMP for ...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:48 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Image Callout Number refenced to the Text
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1507
Re: Image Callout Number refenced to the Text
You and me both :-) I think everyone would auto-updating callout numbers, but that's not something that Flare can manage. I honestly don't think any help apps can do it, either. Not even the non-help apps like FrameMaker can do that without setting up an autonumbering paragraph just for callout poin...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:43 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Search and Replace
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1178
Re: Search and Replace
Hi Harben, Flare's SR function is standard. The main differences are the options to look in only code, snippets, topics, etc. Global SR actions need a great deal of care. You'll need to get in the habit of checking the "found" list before applying the changes. I doubt if MC would add a fun...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 11:14 am
- Forum: Importing
- Topic: ULs wrapping imported text
- Replies: 7
- Views: 28864
Re: ULs wrapping imported text
Hi Troy, Get the Kaizen plugin from https://www.improvementsoft.com/Content/B_Products/0_Products.htm. Kaizen is an invaluable tool for cleaning flare import projects. It's free, too. It does local or global change changes such as removing/swapping a paragraph format or class, removing styling, spli...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: Web-based Outputs
- Topic: Can you set an expiry for TOC entries?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 14170
Re: Can you set an expiry for TOC entries?
Hi Melodie,
Sorry, but no. Flare's output is immutable after generation. I imagine you could add JavaScript to apply a condition to the TOC item when a user opens the help as a one-off, but I doubt that it would be a long-term solution because of the overhead it requires.
Sorry, but no. Flare's output is immutable after generation. I imagine you could add JavaScript to apply a condition to the TOC item when a user opens the help as a one-off, but I doubt that it would be a long-term solution because of the overhead it requires.
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:04 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Code Snippets and JSON - Alternatives?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3943
Re: Code Snippets and JSON - Alternatives?
Flare uses the AvalonEdit package for syntax highlighting. But MadCap has not has not included the JSON syntax file in their builds: https://github.com/icsharpcode/AvalonEdit/blob/master/ICSharpCode.AvalonEdit/Highlighting/Resources/Json.xshd The file's been in Avalon's Repo for over two years. Why ...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 9:56 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Image Callout Number refenced to the Text
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1507
Re: Image Callout Number refenced to the Text
Hi Mareike, Welcome to Flare ;-) Flare's CSS has a caption element that it applies to tables from the Insert Caption item on the table context menu. Unfortunately, that isn't available for images. I think the reasoning was that people would use the Figure html construct which contains elements for t...
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 9:17 am
- Forum: Flare's General Discussion
- Topic: Season's Greetings to the MadCap Community
- Replies: 1
- Views: 766
Re: Season's Greetings to the MadCap Community
Happiest Holidays to you and everyone.
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 8:27 am
- Forum: Single-Sourcing
- Topic: Automatically Build All Conditioned Versions of a Topic?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12579
Re: Automatically Build All Conditioned Versions of a Topic?
You'll need to create a separate target for each permutation and then create a Batch Target.
On the Batch Target, select each of your permutation targets and build away.
On the Batch Target, select each of your permutation targets and build away.