MadCap Software Forums

Ah, got it. I hope you get a solution... there are so many things to set, so many styles and properties and values and settings, etc. Pshew.
tana

Yeah and yippee for Halloween, it finally works, thanks so much. I didn't write back earlier because something rally strange kept happening... whenever I would change the mc-format setting on the Print medium, Flare seemed to change it on the Default Medium, to whatever I had defined on Print Medium...

Good morning! I did indeed do that yesterday, sorry I failed to mention it. For the a.xref, on Print Medium, I set the mc-format property to {title} on page {page}. For a.xref in the Default Medium I left the mc-format at {not set}. Should I set it to something else? Thanks, I look forward to your r...

Thanks Kevin, your help is much appreciated. In the style sheet, in the Medium:print mode, I set the psuedo classes under the a.xref style (focus, hover, link, visited) to exactly how I want them (black font, no decoration). Then I double-checked that in the Medium:default mode, it is blue and under...

Hi, McCarthy, thanks so much for your reply. Sadly, the only reason I "want" hyperlinks is because they already exist throughout my 400+ Help topics, which I am trying to single-source to Frame and then PDF. So it looks like I will be going through each and every Help topic and inserting c...

Hi, I think this is the same issue I had.. but I am rather new to this too so not sure I can help. My understanding is that you can't include the actual .htm file that has the TOCproxy in it (or in my case, it was a MiniTOC proxy), only a link to it. So remove the .htm file from your Master TOC (the...

When I was following a hint on another post, I stumbled across where you can set how much space is between the MinitTOC entry (the text) and the page number. I think. ;-) Go to the Simplified view of the style sheet, and double-click MIniTOC1 to open the Properties dialog box. On the Leader tab, use...

Hi, I cross-posted this to the Styles forum as well... Please help if you can! In my stylesheet I have modified the p. style to indent .75 inches (Block, vertical-align). The output to Frame looks fine when I first open it, it's what I want, but I noticed that in Frame, the paragraph stlye drop-down...

HI, I will cross-post this to the Frame Output forum too, but this one seems a bit moe active. ;-) Please help if you can! In my stylesheet I have modified the p. style to indent .75 inches (Block, vertical-align). The output to Frame looks fine when I first open it, it's what I want, but I noticed ...

Hello. I am struggling mightily with getting my WebHelp output to be simply a hypertext link and the printed output to show the title and then "on page x." With the two way you guys gave above, does this mean that in your online Help the page number reference is still visisble? I tried fol...

Thanks, Kevin, but I am afraid it is back to Support for me. I looked at the code behind my .flpgl, and I had someting similar to yours: <MadCap:variable xhtml:name="RunningHF.ChapNum" xmlns:MadCap="http://www.madcapsoftware.com/Schemas/MadCap.xsd" /> The difference is that mine ...

I have tried using the system variable, which as you know is System.ChapterNumber. I have also created a variable in RunningHF variable set called ChapNum,and I defined it as: <$chapnum>. (Is this the problem, should I have put it in MyVariables?) In my Header frame on the First page, I have inserte...

Yeah, that worked!! Thank you so much, Kevin. If you have any patience/energy left over, could you send me some tips about getting the Chapter Number variable to show up in my First page of the layout?? I have tried both the system variable and on I created.

thanks again!
tana

Thanks, Kevin. Thanks for your help... you did understand me correctly... I didnt want to know how to change the numbering in the TOC directly; what I want to have the generated TOC display the first "real" chaper as Chapter 1, and not display the Table of Contents itself as Chapter 1. (No...

Ah! Egag21, i just saw your post, after writing the post below... Sorry I didn't address your issue, and yes, I would accept any help with mine! ;-) I am starting to feel quite silly, because I am realizing that what I really need is to learn how to NOT have the Table of Contents topic appear as an ...

I THINK I figured out how to add the Chapter Number to the Table of Contents. I followed your advice for editing the TOC1 mc-auto-number-format , but i set it to {n+}. I also edited the TOCProxy.htm topic to identify the stylesheet class; I right-clicked on the output toc proxy, selected Edit TOC Pr...

Hi, Abby, I was having the exact same issue, but I have learned that if I regenerate the book in Frame then the pages numbers for each .fm are corrected. That is, when I first view the Frame outout, and I click any of the .fm files in the .book, then each says it starts with page 1. But if I regen t...

;-) Yes, I have had an eventful past 5 days. I started for the first time on attempting printed documetation in v 3.x, created a master page withe relative ease, then the next day I upgraded to v. 4 and decided to try page layouts. The Flare documentation said that page layouts are easier... errr......

Hi, Jane, I know this is frustraintg... it is a complex set of procedures. However, I keep telling myself about my own struggles that I will either figure it out or I will decide to stop pursuing the elusive dream of single-sourcing and go back to good ole Frame! Hang in there. What I meant in my po...

THANK YOU! I was so frustrated about not being able to use a second frame in the header/footer area... the table solution you posted (so simple, so sweet) allows me to have the page number AND the title both on the footer. I am pursuing this single-sourcing dream, but have encountered a lot of diffi...

Jane, I am somewhat new to the page layouts, but have been heads-down in it for four days now.. and I suspect that where you "messed up" is exactly where you think. On that second layout, called Body, I am pretty sure that for the topic where you want that layout to be used, you will have ...

;-) Duh, thanks, I feel pretty foolish. I figured that out shortly after hittng Submit on the post, of course. I was spoiled by some tool (Dreamweaver??) that showed all sorts of statistics on your project, such as file count, images count, visual map of internal vs. external links, broken links (Fl...

Hi, I am trying to get a count of the total number of topics in the project... have read through Flare's Help and searched this forum and still can't figure it out. There is a way, because a post to the forum mentioned it.. but didn't say how. ;-( Thanks very much, especially for any speedy replies!...

Thanks Margaret, for the tip about adding the path and file name to the header file, ussing two forward slashes. That sounds like the way to go.. and then there is not a separate word doc floating around. I have a question about the process you use... so you get the auto-generated map ID (this is th...

Ah, quite likely. Yes, it was imported from RH. At least there were only two, and easy to get rid of. About contest-sensitive Help, one thing I am struggling with figuring out is that I need to give the developers a mapping file that maps the value (the number assigned in Alias Editor) to the name o...