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Hi oh5igner,

Welcome to Flare and to the forums!

I also had a look to see if I could find an answer for you, and came to the same conclusion as Dave, that your default h1, h2 etc style will be used for injected headings, without allowing you to specify a class. In that case, you probably need to ...

That worked perfectly thanks @Dave. I'd seen that option when I was looking around for things that may give me what I needed, but hadn't realised quite what it meant.

@Nita, just out of interest, why do you reserve level 1 headings for books, and start everything else with level 2? Any reason why ...

The output TOC will appear in whatever place you have put the topic that includes the TOC proxy in your Flare TOC.

If that is set as you want it and you are still having problems, take a look at the page layout or layouts you are using, and make absolutely sure you have a body frame on each page ...

Thanks so much Dave. I'll try that. I suspected there would be a way round this.

Changing to using the TOC depth feature throughout is further down my to-do list, along with a bit of project restructuring to address some of the things I didn't get quite right when I started with Flare a couple of ...

Thanks for taking the trouble to try to understand, and sorry if I wasn't clear.

There are three targets, the WebHelp, the User Guide PDF, and now the second PDF for some content which is required in the WebHelp for now but considered too specialist for the general User Guide. There are only two ...

I've reached the point where I can no longer single source my PDF User Guide and my WebHelp content from the same TOC, as I need to make a separate PDF from some of my content, which is included directly in my WebHelp.

So I decided to make a sub-TOC containing this content, then include this sub ...

How do you control what the ID is? I thought the system assigned it.
Depends what you call the ID. Above, I was referring to the name, not the number.

I see that was a rather confusing assumption, but I find this area confusing. I have managed to get CSH to work, and I understand what I have ...

If possible (it is not always possible) try to resist the situation in which you are telling the developers what the context IDs (aliases) are. This introduces a dependency between you and the code that you are better off without.

I'm interested in why you say this, so I suspect I may be missing ...

I really wish that Flare didn't embed that in the files at all. Even with a single author (me!) I often find conflicts when I merge/copy content between streams and when I inspect the differences, that's all it is. I really believe that user-specific changes, and even view-specific changes should be ...

Make sure that anti-virus checking is turned off in the folder where you are building the output. Flare generates lots of temporary files then almost immediately, tries to open them again, by which time, over-enthusiastic AV software may have jumped in to check them. Flare struggles with this, and ...

Perhaps this post may help. It relates to problems embedding YouTube videos. It seems that allowfullscreen may be an issue. I'm no expert on videos, embedded or otherwise, though.:-)

http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=18742&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=youtube#p98398

@Rob,

This comes up so often that I've been thinking of writing a blog post about it so I can just post a link to that the next time someone has a problem. :-)

Flare can be a rather greedy with filename characters, in my experience. I did some experimenting the other day, and found that most of ...

I'd be very surprised if we can't get to the bottom of the styling issue.

Firstly, when does it happen? Try and see if you can find the common factor. Is it for all topics that use a particular stylesheet, but only that stylesheet? For some topics, regardless of the stylesheet they use? For some ...

Here: https://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?v ... uBy0Nw-Cg1

I've just replied to your parallel post on the LinkedIn forum.

I use Perforce, and get the Paste Progress window regularly when moving, deleting in Flare. In my case, it also kills Flare so I have a vested interest in this not happening. So I always do my moves and deletes outside Flare.

TFS users report far fewer problems, and it seems that you have isolated ...

Oh, so it's plan B with thanks to Kellie, I think.

If I understand correctly, what you need to do is set the target stylesheet to nothing, probably by choosing (as is) or something like that. Then you should be able to set stylesheets for each topic.

In my experience the error usually relates to temporary files that Flare creates while building the output. Look in the folders below where your output is built for the culprits. It is unlikely to be a problem in the generated output as such.

You will almost certainly find that your problem ...

I'd check with support.

Interestingly, I'm in the act of debugging the 40038 error message too. In my case, I've been building PDFs for weeks - all I did was renamed about 20 of my topic files at the request of our developers - they want to be able to display the contents directly from the ...

Actually yes - I just spotted the

mc-auto-number-format: 'NOTE: ';

in your CSS style definition. Silly me. That's what comes from answering questions too early in the morning before the caffeine has kicked in.

Hi there and welcome!

If your note heading is a separate paragraph, then you can define two styles, p.noteheading and p.note. You can use mc-next-class to automatically set the note body style for the text that follows the note heading style.

If the note heading is in the same paragraph (that is ...

Interesting, Kellie. I didn't know that. So what you're saying is that topic-level stylesheets are overridden by the target-level one, to the extent that if you gave a target-level stylesheet specified, Flare doesn't even allow you to set a topic-level one. If you already have one set, it is ignored ...

Yep, that's the one! I've not tried it myself, but it looks extremely hopeful for your situation.

I already include other TOCs in my main TOC - I think this will effectively be the same, but with more (useful!) properties that you can set on each target.

If you don't already have separate sub-TOCs ...

That's why I'm suggesting you try making each language a separate target. You don't have to build each target separately - you will still build just your combined target. Just think of it as a container for the TOC that contains the content for that language. And it's a useful container, because you ...

The header file is just the interface file that links the help topics you've built with some unique IDs, so the application can, if they want to, use the unique ID in a call to some Flare-generated code to tell Flare which help topic to show when the application is showing a particular web page ...