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Hi, will it be possible to create a plain, single page html?

We're trying to convert odt file content (heavily formatted) - via word - to plain html.

thanks

akagi

I'd be grateful if you could share your experience related to importing WORD tables and styles and outputting to WORD/PDF.

My tables in WORD have borders all around, but do not seem to show when output via Flare. I've gone back to the source document and reassigned them, but that seems to have ...

I've set a negative conditional tag and assigned it to a number of TOC elements, but they don't seem to stick. It appears that the updated TOC is not saved. A separate target is created to specify the exclusion for the condition.
When I build the target, the condition is ignored. What am I doing ...

Thank you very much for your responses and various advice!

Paragraph properties - 'page break - always' works for me!

As for the TOC, there are elements that I want in the Flare TOC which I do not want to show in the WORD output TOC. For example, Revision History page and the TOC page.
It is ...

Hi, I've just starte/d importing from WORD, and outputting to WORD/PDF, and am not managing to control 'new topics' in TOC and page breaks for sections that start with non-H type styles.

1) What determines whether a topic is included in the Flare TOC on import of a WORD document split into ...

Hi Dave,

Thanks again -

but whether that is going to be a particularly easy or efficient way to write your help is another matter.

Plot thickens!

akagi

Thanks Kevin and Dave,

Good to know that I can view and edit the stylesheet from within Flare.

Do the standard styles in Flare not include devices like box around the text and the header on the line?
If they do, which styles do I use, respectively?

akagi

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your assessment. I'll send you a screenshot to your private address (if I can) to show you what the help looks like. It's nothing complicated.

At the next opportunity, I'll start a Flare stylesheet from scratch.

Thanks for your patience and sticking with me till the end!

best ...

Hi Dave

Thanks very much for your quick response!

It is possible that my colleague, who used to work with RoboHelp in his previous job and then created the style for MadCap based the style on a previously defined stylesheet. He also used to edit the files on Kompozer, as he found Flare not very ...

Hi Dave,

Thanks very much for the suggestion.

To get to the point. As I was sending the file to you, I opened the stylesheet in Crimson Editor and surprise surprise! All sorts of details were defined, which are not displayed when opening the stylesheet within Flare. I edited the file in C editor ...

Thanks Dave.

In the stylesheet, no colour is set for h1. I can't see a h1.class in the stylesheet. (where do I view all classes?)
In advanced view, nothing comes up as locally set properties. (The only properties set in the stylesheet are display, font size and weight, margin, mc-auto-number-offset ...

I just realized another problem with this manual replacement method...

Most of the files are single sourced from another project and merged. The colour for h1 needs to remain as it is in the other project.
The merge doesn't happen often, but would be nice to minimise the amount of work required ...

Thanks for your kind explanations, Dave!

Now, when I see the file in the editor, it has: <h1 xmlns="">Reference Topics</h1>
When I remove xmlns="", the colour remains unchanged, and does not conform to the colour set for h1 in the style sheet the topic is linked to.
If I then apply a change of ...

Thank you everybody for making my options clearer!

Lisa, how do I enable "find in source code" field? Searching in Help for source code doesn't return anything, except in the XML Wizard in relation to importing a robohelp project. Looked at options ... Once I have source code view, I imagine I ...

It appears that local formatting had been used to apply colour to h1 style, which has no colour set in the stylesheet. I want to apply a different colour en mass, but changing the colour on the stylesheet is ineffective. I have 100 lines/pages to change. Moreover, a naming uri error comes up from ...

When I create a new topic page based on an existing htm file and rename it, the breadcrumb title does not seem to get updated.
The breadcrumb is supposed to show the TOC heading for the page, but in this case it doesn't for the page itself. For TOC levels above that page, the TOC headings show in ...

Thanks Kevin, for the clarification. I suppose that a snippet snips it out.

I should have used 'variables' for the text, or created a duplicated topic page and made them conditional to the respective targets.
Is this the correct way to go about it?

(For blocks of style class I have been applying ...

Kevin - please read on.

I will try again to word my problem better.

What I want to do is to restore the page to the status before the snippet was applied, so that I can edit the original text in the htm file, not the text in the flsnp file.

Is there a way to dissociate the reference between the ...

Lisa,

Thank you for taking the time for my query, but my problem isn't solved yet.

What do you do on MadCap Flare, if you want to edit the text on the topic page after you'd applied a snippet to it?

Is there a way to restore the topic page to the status before the snippet was applied?
What I ...

Lisa and Kevin, thanks both for your advice. Please read on as my problem isn't solved yet:

Lisa, When I click delete, the snippet and the source block/text that it replaced disappear together. I need just to remove the association between the snippet and the block/text.

Kevin, what I want to do ...

I have inserted snippets/variables in place of text string/sections into a topic page and now wish to remove them, to roll back to the original text so that I can see it on the xml editor. Could somebody tell me how to do this?

If I delete the snippet/variable, the entire section is removed ...

HI all - Resolved!
akagi

A colleague created a style called blockquote which is basically two lines between which text is inserted. An image of a lightbulb is also added:
blockquote
{
background-image: url(../../images/dialog-information.jpg);background-color: #ffffff;background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: left ...

Problem solved. The Master Page had the default style sheet associated with it - changed it to the new one.
(I hadn't created the Master Page myself, so didn't know much about it. Removed the default css then saw that the Master page was missing it during the build process, etc.)

akagi

Hi i-tietz, thanks - no we use webhelp.
akagi