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I found it!! *headdesk* It was under non-print not default. I knew the code itself was right.

My thing is, this was for WebHelp, which is technically non-print...?

Robin

I created a test one and selected MyFlareTemplates (which said none are selected) and added p.note in the Internal Text Editor and it refuses to change the background color or add border colors despite it being set in the Simple View (whichever one looks like Excel). It changes the font color though ...

I've added a p.note class and span.note class to no avail. For some reason I see it in style.css, but nothing happens in my topic. It isn't changing a thing. I even opened style.css in the Internal Text Editor and pasted the text as shown for Flare's format directly into p.note which is shown so I ...

Michael,

What did you find? Mine isn't the stylesheet, but it is in regard to a few of my Related Topics and other places. Two of the files it says it can't bookmark to that type of file (an htm topic file), and that it isn't an XML file...yet when I view the output the link works. I haven't even ...

I'm getting this too even though I have gone into the Related Topics and re-added the bookmark to the file, which is definitely there. It's also happening in other areas.

Robin

As I said, I looked in the XML Editor and the Text Editor (Send to Text Editor). I don't right-click on the topic.

I inherited this documentation from the previous writer, another writer about a year before that, and the non-writer in between them. This doc has been "Frankensteined together" to ...

When you say you're looking at the tags in the XML Editor, do you mean you've opened the topic in the Internal Text Editor, or did you just click the <t> icon to turn on the XML tag view? If it's the latter, then that view shows the XML structure, not the full page code. You'd need to view the ...

I'm having an issue with a document that uses an embedded stylesheet to bold certain text. When I look at the tags in the XML editor all it says is: <span> my text </span> and doesn't show that it's actually these span & p styles (the text editor shows me this):

span.hcp3
{
font-weight: bold;
}
p ...

I have 6,118 error message in tables of 200 rows each. The fact that I don't have to color each one individually and can just click and apply rows.css to the whole table at once to shade it almost makes me giddy!

Robin

wclass wrote:Look back in the TOC file, check the Properties of the entry and look on the General tab - there is a Mark as New selection list there - that should be set to NO.

This one was it. Seems there is 3 ways to do everything in Flare.

Robin

At this point that code is gone. I restarted the topic from scratch about 3 times and played until it got quite close. Right now it's "right" except for the numbers themselves not being bold. I started before lunch and went until 3:30pm...I ended up hand coding a lot of it after playing with Format ...

Paul,

Thanks for the link. I looked under the Skins > Sleek > Styles > TOCEntry > MarkAsNew and it's not set. Ha!

The longer I work with this doc the more I'm tempted to take the "nuclear" option as was suggested in response to another post of mine and start over, but it's so big and I'm so new ...

For my project, I wanted to use nested lists and bullets which use different list and bullet styles.

I tried out a few methods of formatting my lists (including creating numerous ol, ul and li classes), but I found that by far the best way to set them up was to use 'complex selectors'. Despite the ...

Another possibility is that a previous author has set a particular HTML Help icon against these TOC entries.

To check this, open the TOC editor, right-click the TOC entry and choose Properties. In the Properties dialog, on the Advanced tab, check whether the HTML Help Icon drop-down is showing an ...

I searched all the Flare forums on here and came up with 4 responses that didn't match and Google was coming up with solar flares, stars, chemicals, etc despite searching for "red asterisk" + flare +chm so I'm posting this here.

When I build a CHM and view it several of my topics and a book or two ...

Sorry, Robin, those plus tags have nothing to do with a possible RoboHelp conversion.

I know: we've converted two 40-project merged WebHelp systems from RH to Flare, and there's no such code anywhere in the files.


Good luck,
Leon

But the empty span tags part? Or < img /> which has no link or ...

Why would open and closed SPAN tags be spread throughout my topic, seemingly at random, sometimes in the middle of words, sentences, or paragraphs?

This is what's messing up my spellchecker.

What might have caused them to appear, and can I get rid of them?

This is the closest thing I've found ...

I don't know how it got switched on. It has always been like that unless I somehow did it without realizing it. I can't find where to turn it on/off despite searching the online help.

Thanks,

Robin

There's just images, fonts, link styling, and paragraph fonts and margins in the header.

I'm starting to suspect there wasn't a stylesheet as many things like the graphics for bullets are just links. There are no styles listed. One of the guys here told me late yesterday that part of the reason ...

I'd try to identify where those + characters (<h2+>, <p+>, etc.) are coming from. I've never seen that; has anyone else? There's probably a lot of stuff in the <head></head> section of the individual topics (much like when you Save As Html from Word), based on whatever conversion was involved to ...

lacastle wrote:chm doesn't work on a network. i don't use chm so i forgot to mention that. sorry.

I didn't think so, but I had to ask. This is my first CHM since 2003. We also produce MC WebHelp it seems. I think the CHM is going away for us eventually.

Robin

lacastle,

One thing I don't get is it went to both my local and network folders and the Output folder copy on my local drive works, but the one on the network drive doesn't. It tells me to try typing the URL again. Should it not work in both or have I been away from a network so long I've ...

This is my 4th day with Flare and thus far all I had seen/read was information about Destinations. Now that I created a CHM output I found that there is also an Output folder, which is different than the Destination. Why is this? What's the difference between a publishing destination and this output ...

Whenever I click on the words within the span tag (when they're highlighted blue and let me go to Style Class > Edit Style Class) and go to edit a style sheet it tells me there isn't one. When I look at the XML there is nothing but this...

<h2+>To activate a 5.0 license online:>/h2>
<p+>1. Open ...

Why would open and closed SPAN tags be spread throughout my topic, seemingly at random, sometimes in the middle of words, sentences, or paragraphs?

This is what's messing up my spellchecker.

What might have caused them to appear, and can I get rid of them?

This is the closest thing I've found ...