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Does anyone know how to make cross references include a page number in print output, but not in HTML? I'm using the style Madcap:xref. It's formatted as {paratext} {pageref}.
You need to specify different formats for the cross-reference in your stylesheet for each medium. Here's some (very ...

however, the toolbar is NOT the place for them, I could do that in Flare but as I keep saying they should go in the somewhat blank space ABOVE the toolbar, as it's not part of the html doc (which is what the toolbar is for, to navigate that doc).

The HTML5 template files are in a slightly ...

Trouble is, Flare is a documentation system/tool, and we're wanting to make it a support tool - so links to support, issue-tracking, and training need to appear outside the document/page, eg above this toolbar.
Off the top of my head, two ways you can make this happen:

1. Create links using new ...

Have done all the above and I am still having no luck. Any other suggestions would be MUCH appreciated.
Check your PDF viewer preferences. It's possible that the PDF file is set to open showing bookmarks, as you want, but also that your viewer preferences are set to only show the content.

It ...

I am trying to create a style that uses a hanging indent, for example a note or tip where the word "Note" is in line with the left margin and all the rest of the text is indented by, say, 20mm. There are a few of these paragraphs, Tip and Caution leap to mind. Another suggestion would be to use an ...

I'd try to float the "1" character: Add a float:left; to the styles of the first element in row (in your example the span). The following element (in your example the div) should then start at exactly the same position as the span.
Floating allows you to bring elements beside each other or ...

I need to place the number one above the image in a certain position. Therefore the parent div got the attribute position:relative. The child div with the number the attribute position:absolute with top and left information.

You can fudge it by making the image a background and using padding ...

is there a way to insert a line break in a variable? ( in "Definition" column of *.flvar file) for Example: "Name = Company" "Definition = Sunshine <br/> Company"

You could also try adding line break characters into the variable (\n or ASCII 10, \r or ASCII 13) and then using the CSS property ...

Interesting. I'm pretty sure Dreamweaver uses Shift+Space, too, which is why I just naturally tried that when I started using Flare. SharePoint Designer is the same way, I think. I wonder if it's a web app convention versus a print app convention.
As far as I know MS Word and OOo Writer use Shift ...

In the Word output, the standard Word bullets are displayed instead (defined in the "list-style-type" property). If I set "list-style-type" to none, Word displays a numbered list instead. If I set "list-style-type" to none, I get the standard Word bullet (black circle).

http://kb.madcapsoftware ...

No, the non-breaking space is appearing in topics that have only been edited in Flare.

Chances are that your writers held down the Shift key just a little too long while typing capital letters or punctuation. Every organization where I've used Flare, we see these scattered throughout the output ...

I've tried messing with the "search result path" setting in the skin, but it seems to refuse to accept no settings. I tried deleting the code in the skin and that just broke everything. The best I can do is set the font at white, and then it's less visible, but still there. Is there somewhere else ...

I am working on a project for a product that will have an app available on a tablet device and will need documentation in some format. My question is, how do people working with professional apps commonly access the help?

One thing that makes this a bit tricky for me is that this product's app is ...

I have a page with several tables, and I can't seem to figure out how to link the paragraph above to the table below so that they do not end up on different pages. I can't seem to figure out how to put in a page break, though tables themselves have widow/orphan control on them and are working fine ...

Can anyone tell me how to provide a direct link to a specific topic in my HTML5 content while preserving the frame? We want to have links to specific topics from our knowledge base, but still want the user to have context by seeing the TOC.

In your browser, right-click any link in the TOC and ...

I have found the file search.htm in the output that is generated during compile, but I need to change this file further upstream so that Flare uses my customized version. Is there a way to do this (i.e. a generic Search.htm file that is grabbed from some location during compile that I can modify ...

All I need is the function name so that I can call that same function from an icon that I have added to the topic toolbar.

You can probably approximate the same thing by calling the click event for that button:

JQuery: $("#show-hide-navigation").click();
Standard JavaScript: document ...

Does Flare have a way to select multiple topics before right-clicking and selecting Properties? The Ctrl key doesn't seem to work when I'm viewing the topic list in the Content Explorer pane. Is there some other way to apply a property setting to multiple topics at the same time?

In Content ...

As kwag_meyers indicated, remove the mc-auto-number-format property to remove the text.

However, it's not possible to position an image like that using only CSS while still having a CSS border. The reason is because an element's background image can only underlay its content and padding (but not ...

I inherited a project that has a special header with a logo image to the right in a separate "cell". When working in Flare, all of the pages look alike, but when the project is published, the two tone background behind the text in the header is missing but the logo to the right is still there only ...

When I publish my flare project in HTML5 output the search feature does not work. You can type in a word, but no results show up. Did I miss something in the conversion from webhelp to HTML5?

Hard to answer this without more information. Does anything else seem to be broken? Are you launching ...

I generate webhelp for a software product using Flare 8. I have been asked by my bosses if I can provide an "electronic" version of the online help so that one of our customers could translate it to a different language? Is it possible for the customer to use the generated webhelp output files (not ...

I went into the Stylesheet with notepad and added some properties so it would work (using a standard stylesheet) yet my content looks very odd now.

Remove width: 0; and height: 0; from your style.

You're instructing the browser to create an element that has zero area, yet has content and is ...

So has anyone had any experiences good, bad, or indifferent with CSS Reset files, particularly in conjunction with Flare?

Indifferent.

I've previously used CSS reset styles, and after awhile, decided that they were too much work to keep maintained. MadCap rarely highlights any changes they make ...

As Lisa mentioned, it's almost certainly due to a link style. (The last part of the breadcrumb is in a different typeface from the rest, and both it and the separators don't have an overlay.)

In addition to the background and padding properties, it could also be any of these:
- margin or margin-top ...