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You've probably sorted this by now but you could use a div. <div class="iconhd_top"> <div> <img src="../Resources/Images/Icons/categories/ene.svg" alt="decoration icon" class="small_icon" /> </div> <div> <h1 class="level3">Ene 04 Low carbon design </...

You could use Notepad++ to do a bulk search and replace.

Well, that got me out of a fix. I was using mc-auto-number-position: outside-head; to place autonumbers but this meant that we had problems when inserting footnotes. It sure was a head-scratcher. Many thanks. Hi, I hope I don't misunderstand your problem. I use hanging headings as well, for this I d...

Ideally one user at a time. Otherwise things can get complicated. We use Sharepoint with Contributor and encourage users to check out their document to prevent content being altered by another user.

I specify the heading levels in the stylesheet. Works OK.

Here's what I did. Backup your project in case it all goes horribly wrong. Close Flare. Rename the new folder in Windows. Delete the project folder in the Analyzer folder. Open the project in Flare If still having issues... I had some strange problems with Flare and permissions; not allowing me to g...

Yep. I agree; it's extremely frustrating.
My workaround is:
Open the topic in the XML editor
Open it again using Notepad++
find >< replace with >\r\n<
reindent
and edit it in Notepad++
When saved, the XML editor version will update.

Not ideal but a quick fix.

It's fairly simple but extremely tedious. 1: Make a pot of coffee and turn off your phone. 2. Tag your content as needed. I found that it's sometimes easier to repeat paragraphs and tag them (for ease of reading and spell checking purposes) 3. Make air-cooled and hydrostatic targets. Don't know if i...

I output to Epub and Mobi filetypes. I want to publish a manual using the iBook store and this means validating the epub with Epubcheck. I get hundreds of ERROR: infra_2014.epub/OPS/scoring_rating.xhtml(94,147): 'The': fragment identifier is not defined in 'OPS/id03_hand_care.xhtml' errors and it lo...

I use mapping to achieve this. I work on my project files on our \\errol server, which I mapped to P: (P:\manuals\MyFlareProject\). I created another mapping (V:) for the same server. In my PDF target dialog, I set the Output folder to V:\manuals\MyFlareProject\Content\Resources. I then use a batch ...

Hi Joe, Your workflow seems to be more dynamic than what we have here. We publish technical manuals for a number of energy rating schemes. The same team of authors work on a cycle of manuals for new schemes and updating existing manuals. So it's a slower process. When I'm told that a manual is to be...

Thanks Reuben,
I'd prefer if it displayed the book-page which contains a summary of the section but it's not a huge problem.

When I resize my browser to tablet or phone size, I noticed that when I click on a 'book' link in the navigation pane, it doesn't close the navigation pane, as I would have expected.
Anybody else experience this?
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Re 1. We save the packages on a Sharepoint server and email the authors when the packages are available. They then only have the latest version available to edit, so no more descending into version hell. It's really handy to check out the files when importing Flare to prevent authors tinkering with ...

I want our SMEs to break long tables for printed output. Some of the rows are quite high so I can't apply a page-break-inside:avoid property universally as it plays havoc with the layout. In Flare I can right-click on a tr element in the structure bars and apply a tr.nosplit class that inserts a pag...

You can open an ePub file with Winzip or some other compression application and extract the css file, which may help.

Oh well, I'll have to try another tack.
Thanks for your help, Lisa.

Thanks for your quick reply Lisa.
Tried it but it's not really the result I was looking for.
Only items with the 'showthis' tag should be extracted. Normal, untagged text should be excluded.
I'm sure that there's a way to do this in the Conditional Text editor but it's got me stumped.

I had this problem also.
Tried a repair of .Net 4.5; didn't work.
Uninstalled .Net 4.5 and re-installed .Net 4.0.
It seems to be stable now.

Is there any way to output tagged items only ? I've got about 140 topics that have a similar structure. Each topic has a table summary that I want to extract into a PDF file. As a trial, I created a topic. I put a tag in <body MadCap:conditions="bre_tags.General"> and put in a paragraph li...

The equation editor will not start up. Usually when this happened before, I closed MCF and other running programs and restarted MCF. But now the editor won't run, even after a reboot; just sits there, loading, with the progress bar scrolling by in a mocking fashion. Generally this isn't a big deal w...

Thanks to Charlie for saving my bacon.
Attempting to have multiple references to a single footnote was a noodlescratcher that I gave up on.
Good solution.

I'm outputting an instruction manual to a PDF file. Generally the document is A4 portrait but there are a few wide tables that I output using a landscape page layout. However, Flare always puts a blank landscape page before the wide table (even in the xml editor). I disabled the end on left page opt...

I've been asked to investigate Adobe Air for distributing our frequently updated technical manuals I haven't installed Air on my computer yet but from Google searches, it looks like the Air output files from MCF do not auto-update. Has anybody any experience of Air and whether there is a workaround ...

Same thing happened to me. Thanks for sharing the solution.