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Perhaps the best workaround at this point is to insert the stylesheet reference in the head section of the xml as you suggest. It does seem tedious! I'll do some testing and post back...

I tried that this morning, and I couldn't get it to work. A stylesheet set at topic level seems to get ...

Firstly, have you raised a feature request asking for conditional content and variables in glossaries? That may mean that you only need one glossary. Like you, I have several, because I can't single source the content, but I have three outputs, so I have an All, and A, a B, a C, and an A+B, A+C, B+C ...

The .flprjzip file is an ordinary zip file with a few extra files to give Flare some information about what was zipped. Change the file extension to .zip, and open it as a zip file if you want to. :-)

Note that Flare replaces spaces in filenames with %20, and probably adds some control information ...

Forget that - I don't think it will work. I do have a crumb of hope at the end of this post though.

You can view the stylesheet that's set for an individual topic, either in the topic properties, or for many topics using the File List view. But you can't set it - at least I can't as it is greyed ...

This is only half an answer, as I'm not on my PC at present. But you will need to set specific index styles, rather than assume your paragraph style will do. You will currently be picking up whatever Madcap's default index styles are. Have a look at the help to see the names of the styles you need ...

This isn't a very good answer, I'm afraid, but it's the best I can do.

The default Stylesheet that will be picked up if you specify that for a target will be your project default, which is probably your English one. So that's why that didn't work

Leave the default Stylesheet as English, and set ...

It just means that it's all one line of text, without a carriage return in it. So if you viewed your file in a text editor with Word Wrap off, it would be a very long line.

You can experiment by changing the width of the window in Flare, and see more of these appear as the window width decreases ...

Thanks. I'd already tried looking for a divider, and failed, but I tried again after your comment.

It's not actually the line you can see (level with the text "preview") which looks like a divider, and which I'd already tried. It's at the top of the grey border round the preview area. You have to ...

Or is it me?

This is what I see when I open it. Instead of seeing all my settings and options, with a preview at the bottom, I see a small window on the settings and options, and most of the screen as a preview. Look at how much scrolling is needed to get to all the settings.

Anyone else noticed ...

You're using table stylesheets, aren't you? If so, for table cells, you need to set it on the table stylesheet not your ordinary stylesheet.

In the table stylesheet editor, on the Rows tab, select the row that you want to apply this setting to, then select Print Options. You'll find a range of ...

What version of Flare are you using? I know Flare 8 had problems with IE11.

Where are you specifying the stylesheet (and medium) to use? In the target, or in the topic itself?

If you're specifying it in the target, as you would normally, look at your topic to check that doesn't also have a stylesheet specified. if you originally imported from Word, Flare always does that ...

Setting the page layout on a topic in Flare's XML editor only sets what you see in the editor. If you want to set the page layout that is used for a topic in your output, you need to set it as a property on the TOC entry (on the Printed Output tab).

Most will say "(default)" - that just means to ...

I've raised this as a bug - our security experts tell me that the recognised (and safe) behaviour if you need to link externally is to specify a whitelist of allowed addresses/partial addresses. Otherwise, you could still be vulnerable to an injection attack where malicious code takes over part of ...

Can you explain a bit more about what you need?

Are you saying you have some boilerplate text that appears in several places, which changes from time to time, and when it changes, all instances of it need to change? Or are you saying you have some text which is very similar in several places, but ...

I have IE 11 and both Flare 9 and Flare 10 generate WebHelp and html5 that can be viewed fine in IE 11. Flare 8 didn't.

And thank you Paul from me too. I didn't know you could do that and I'm having problems with pagination for single sourced content that uses drop-downs heavily. My pagination for the print versions of content in drop-downs is awful, throwing new pages when strictly not asked for, and when there is ...

Have you checked you have made your change in the correct media?

If I'm not sure whether the problem is the syntax or behaviour of the setting, or the place I've done it, I usually make some stupid change, like setting the text to 40pt red. if that doesn't happen either, you know you've made the ...

I don't think you would want to put the English and all translations into a single mega-project (unless someone else knows differently!).

What I do at present is have one main English project (although I am toying with GPL and smaller projects) and one project for each translated language. So I ...

I obviously didn't make my self clear. Sorry! Snippet conditions won't be suitable at all, for lots of reasons.

Consider a really simple example, I'd like to say ""To add a new xxx, click Show to see a list of possible xxxs. Select the xxx you require. To filter the list, type a name or partial ...

Sorry - H1 is the line I included above with the chapter number.

H2 is
mc-auto-number-format: '{chapnum}.{Cn+}

I think the C is the magic bit for the figure/table captions, if I remember correctly. That tells it to reset at chapter level. Your example below uses S, which I think tells it to ...

Something I've been meaning to ask for for ages. Anyone else want to second my proposition?

Here's what I wrote in my feature request.

Title: Ability to define snippet variables, that are set at the point the snippet is placed in a topic

I often have boilerplate text that needs to be repeated in ...

Take a safe copy of your files before you start doing any sort of global search and replace!

You can easily get rid of some of the noise by replacing </span><span> with nothing. That will get rid of all the little chunks and make it look a bit cleaner on the outside, although it isn't inside.

To ...

Hi there. This works for me.

p.FigureCaption
{
mc-auto-number-format: 'CF:Figure {chapnum}.{n+} ';
}

p.TableCaption
{
mc-auto-number-format: 'CT:Table {chapnum}.{n+} ';

}

I can't remember how much is strong magic, and how much is the first thing I thought of (which didn't work, I'm sure ...

I'm with the original poster. I've noticed this too. I already have a saved layout, which I select using Window > Layout. But each time I close it and reopen it, I have to specify this again.

However, this post got me thinking. I do remember I had to copy my Flare 9 layouts over to Flare 10 ...