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Thanks for the replies and discussion, folks.

That's what I'm doing. For one project, I have 13 targets that go to separate subdirectories on Amazon S3. We set up the S3 instances as mapped drives on Windows.
Each Destination is the directory holding the Help files. In the General tab of the Destination Editor, I put the location under ...

BedfordWriter wrote:Good question. Made me interrupt my day until I figured out the answer. I can see lots of uses for special characters in variables.

What are you thinking?

Interesting to see others running into this issue too. Ass mattf says, it makes copy and pasting example code a minefield.

I'm assuming the issue is something along the lines of Flare using 'end of line hyphenation' -type hyphens rather than basic hyphens? Then again, I had the same issue with non ...

Scenario:

I have a large set of many release notes in an online help (HTML5). I've organised these in the Content Explorer by product version (e.g. 7), including sub-folders for sub releases (e.g. 7.4, 7.4.6).

Some product fixes appear in more than on release. e.g. F3021 - Fix support for CSV ...

A small thing, but I get annoyed telling Flare that I don't want to use English (US) every time I create a new project (which is often).

Also stuff like standard settings for items in a Flare TOC - e.g. having to set 'New Section' and five other things for every single topic is a pain.

Surely ...

Many thanks for the replies, but neither resolve the issue.

If I create a brand new project and child project using the same standard Flare template, then it works. What could I have possibly changed in my project to make it not work? Each project and the master project uses the exact same custom ...

I have a master project that has a TOC that has items linking to other Flare projects. Everything is in HTML5 and uses the same stylesheets, skins, etc.

http://i.imgur.com/3DSryxe.png

Compile Status error message when trying to build HTML5 target:

Build failed: ... Linked target does not ...

RamonS wrote:It is most likely this: Open the skin, General tab, TOC Options section, check Automatically Synchronize TOC.

That's the fella, thanks!

Scenario

Two content output streams:
1) Large knowledge base (KB) containing all content produced - user guides, release notes, service packs notes, how-tos, workarounds, etc.
2) Periodic content published separately, per software release - e.g. version 3.1 user guide & release notes

Question ...

I saw a setting for this a while back I think, but can't find it.

How do I set it so that in web output (HTML5 in my case), when clicking a link in a topic that links to another topic, the Contents pane updates to highlight that topic, expanding all 'books' as necessary.

Thanks.

Has anyone with 64-bit performance problems had better performance with the 32-bit version?

Also meeting considerable performance issues that were not present in v10. Flare process CPU increases hugely during even typing, up to 80% if I type fast enough. Mouse laggy, opening/closing stylesheet/topics laggy, missed clicks.

Analyzer stuff was already disabled, and I'm not using source ...

This behaviour in Flare is driving me mad.

If I create a one paragraph table cell, the cell generates to word with a "td" style, but if I add a second paragraph, then Flare wantonly wraps both paragraphs in p tags so they generate to Word with a "p" style. This makes it difficult to control the ...

techwriter31 wrote:For the table jumping to the next page, do you have the following specified in your stylesheet?

Code: Select all

table
{
	page-break-inside: avoid;
}

Yup.

Any tables that don't fit into the remainder of a page immediately jump to the start of the next page. The desired behaviour is that a table begins exactly where it is, and then splits over to the next page if necessary.

I'm using a table style. I've tried setting various things (CSS: table, tr ...

The hype in here is almost unbearable!

One single regular topic, titled Glossary. One heading per term, followed by the term. Formatting/linking added as needed.

Done.

Going by previous years, v12 will be released in early March.

Expectations? Desires? Sneek peeks?

I'm embarking on a large Knowledge Base project that's going to require the input of lots of SMEs and reviewers, with a well defined process.

As I've only used the core functionality of Flare up until now (CSS and other styling, master pages, content creation, basic proxies, variables, skins ...

I'm using <p> tags.

Hmmmm. I've also tried this with commercial PDFs (not generated in Flare), the problem still exists. Basically, if there's a hyphen at the end of a line, it is removed when copy and pasting. This is when using Adobe Acrobat Reader and FoxIT.

The behavior in SumatraPDF is ...

Weird behaviour with PDF outputs in Flare 10.

I have a document that includes some XML code (i.e. the reader sees the code in the PDF). The following line of XML is to be shown:

<config-property-value>xbean:broker-config.xml</config-property-value>

In the PDF that is created, the end of the ...

This is a general technical writing topic not necessarily related to Flare.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-jobs-the-onrushing-wave-2014-1

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52e196c569bedde8131b31ef-800-/chart-of-the-day-robots-taking-jobs.jpg

Technical writing at a whopping ...

A-ha, I always wondered why the variable set is shown in the target properties dialog - you can override the variable set default values!

Thanks, Msquared!

I have two different targets in the same Flare 7 project. Both targets are WebHelp.

My master page includes has a variable in the footer ( helpType ) that shows the product name and the user help 'type'. The product name is the same for both targets, but the user help type is different - one is ...