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I can't answer your original question, but I would like to offer a possible work-around.

I'm using a separate CSS for the cover page of my PDF outputs. My approach to this is to set up my own project template where one topic uses the cover.css and another topic uses my default.css, which is set in ...

It's not a weird thing...
At the risk of arguing semantics, when I set a (non-print) Medium and generate what I consider to be a "non-print" output, e.g., webhelp, the (default) style is used instead of the (non-print) style. That, imho, is weird/strange/unexpected behavior.

My point is, you ...

I think I found it. Check the Medium menu in the CSS. If it's set to anything but Medium: (default) the output stylesheet does this weird thing where it creates a section:

@ media non-print

Anyway, set the Medium menu to default and set the margin-left to -24px . I tested it in both FF15 and IE8 ...

It should be margin-left of the ul style, but even with a negative value in both the ul and li styles I get a margin. I've tried wrapping the ul in a div with a negative value, too.

To answer my own question, no. There are VB Scripts to generate a report on file properties, but I don't see Flare properties anywhere in the file properties.

I think what you're asking is really two separate things. You can change the TOC icons in the Skin Editor :

1. On the Project ribbon, click Primary Target .
2. On the General page, click the Skin Edit button.
3. On the Styles page, select TocEntry .
4. In the Properties window, expand TocIcons . I ...

With the Home ribbon displayed, select the entire span (double-click for a single word). The class displays in the Style menu of the Styles section. This works with both Tags On and Tags Off , although it's easier to select the span in Tags On mode. Just click the <span+> tag (taking care not to ...

When I started using DITA the text editor I had would add a prefix of c_, r_, or t_ to the file name. Since coming over to Flare I've found that I like having that prefix even though I have to add it manually.

To address your question, I'm wondering if a VBScript would work?

I ran into this dilemma working for a client with a three-click rule (no more than three levels in the TOC). I'm not sure you can have a standard for this, but my strategy for large projects is to find a balance between too few and too many folder levels. Somewhere between four and six seem to be ...

I think the question here is, "what makes an HTML skin invalid for HTML5?" I looked at the code for both and I don't see the difference. However, when I change a WebHelp project to HTML5 the skin is labeled "invalid". I'm assuming you're getting the same thing?

If it were me, I'd try opening the ...

Thanks for the response. Yes, I think I can do a find and replace globally. But as kwag_myers mentioned, the string being replaced might not be unique. If a third level list item is also using the circle as the bullet marker, I don't want to replace that. I was hoping that there's a way to indicate ...

Couldn't you just run a find/replace on :<ul style="list-style-type: circle;"><li>
and replace it with <ul style="list-style-type: circle;"><li.secondlevel>

This is the <li> tag that you're talking about right? if need be, you could use a regular expression to hihglight just that <li> tag.
I ...

jasonsmith wrote:You can use the Remove inline formatting button in the toolbar to "turn off" a span effect.

But does that remove the syntax, or just override it?

That never worked for me. I actually got the idea from dmcleod's thread. Apparently, it didn't work for dmcleod either. This way I know it's there.

Paste this code into NotePad and Save As a .vbs file. When you generate WebHelp you can double-click this file and the favicon is added to the root directory. I use the same favicon for all my outputs, but you can put the script and favicon in the project folder (where the .flprj file resides) if ...

Yeah, Flare doesn't work that way. Often, it will overwrite something you've changed and that can be very frustrating. Also, the tool bar is very tricky. Moving the logo to the left took me forever to figure out.

You can edit the CSS the same way and it's a lot easier than trying to find the right ...

There might be an easier way than this, I've only been using Flare for a few weeks:

1. With the project open in Flare, go to the Project tab and click Primary Target .
2. Click General , and then the Edit button for Skin .
3. Go to Styles > Frame > Toolbar .
4. Expand the General Properties and ...

"Rulers" Maybe I shouldn't come here first thing in the morning.

I'm not sure what you're referring to in Word, but there is a Rule feature on the Insert ribbon for horizontal rules. You can also insert a text box with a border along the side or bottom. Or, you can add a class to the <p> tag and use the border properties.

If you want a vertical rule between ...

... you can do a find-and-replace with regular expressions (if you know how to do that) to strip out span tags with that class from all the topics in the project while leaving the text between the tags behind.
How would you do that? If you do <span class"Review1">*</span> won't you lose your bound ...

I'd like to use the Dropdown Text feature for some of my longer topics, but I'm concerned I might lose some of my novice users. My thought was to add "- click to view" after the dropdown header by using the Content property.

According to the user interface for the CSS, I need to use the pseudo ...

The only way that comes to mind is to set your margin-right for the paragraph tag in your style sheet. You may also have to set this for other styles, too. Unless you can add a blank (clear) image to the right side of your MasterPage, but that might cause some issues with short and long topics ...

Basically, what I need to do is create an online help with navigation tree, search box and section where to download the user guides that I've created.
The nav tree (TOC) and search box are all part of the web help output. If you keep the Print action in the tool bar your users will be able to ...

Can this also be done for images? When aligning a screen shot in an ordered list, use use a non-breaking space and insert the image. However, sometimes, I need to indent the image to line up with the others on the page. I have clicked the indent button on the toolbar and have chosen blockquote. It ...

Thanks Lisa,

Yes, that worked...
I'm glad you went with Lisa's suggestion because I just realized Flare's XML Editor doesn't allow you to insert a <div> into a <li>. I must have been looking at some code I converted from another editor.

edit: The only issue I had with Lisa's suggestion is the ...