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The page numbers appearing in my page footers are of the form {chapnum}-{pagenum}.
In the TOC I can only see the page numbers, which do restart correctly at the beginning of each chapter.
How to I get the TOC to display the page numbers in the required {chapnum}-{pagenum} format?

Thanks. That works. So next thing: Does Flare (or maybe Analyzer) have some systematic way of maintaining a table of project bookmarks, something like this:

Bookmark Name Bookmark Text Bookmark Style Parent Topic file

And then: I can sort on column 1 or sort on column 4

Meanwhile, I'm setting ...

Creating an xref to from one topic to another in the project is easy as long as it is to the external topic's heading. But how can I xref to a style within an external topic, such as a figure caption?

I still have not solved the problem. Worse still, for a regular full TOC it uses 3 levels and if I want only two - I might as well just whistle in the wind. In Frame that was so easy. (Sigh).

One more thing:

I tried creating a private stye sheet for the brief TOC topic. It was a copy of my regular style sheet but with mc-heading-level set to zero for h2 and higher.
They should not have appeared in the TOC. It didn't help: The TOC proxy just ignores all settings and puts out all the ...

Hello Nita!

Meanwhile I took another completely different tack:

1. Create briefTOC and fullTOC conditions.

2. Appropriately condition the the TOC proxy in the BriefTOC.htm and FullTOC.htm topics.
(FWIW, also applied as project TOC properties Duh!)

3. Apply mc-conditions as fullTOC to TOC2, TOC3 ...

This is for PDF output: Generating a full TOC using the TOC proxy works fine. I would also like to generate a "Contents at a Glance" TOC with only one level (h1). Where or how do you set the TOC level? (Background: I come from Frame, where this is very easy. Also, I've looked in the online help; it ...

Where is the search box for a topic of my choice?

One important design detail I overlooked:

In setting up a system of this type, you must nominate a "primary" or "default" OEM around which, all of the development takes place. As soon as both the topics and the target(s) look reasonable, you should then be able to switch to a different OEM to check ...

Hello folks!

Scenario: I currently use Frame to produce User Manuals (UMs) for n products x m OEMs. Each OEM requires the UM with its own branding. All equipment pictures are OEM "neutral". Screen captures are divided into OEM dependent images and common images. OEM dependency in the text is ...

I struck this. Avast has a menu option to disable it for 10 minutes, 1 hour or until next boot. Just disable it for 10 minutes, do the install and all's well.

Hello folks!

Further to my last post:

If you change the CSS to this -

p.To_Do_List_Header
{
font-size: 12.0pt;
font-weight: bold;
color: #000000;
margin-top: 0pt;
margin-bottom: 0pt;
/* auto-number-format: 'Y:Ø ';*/
mc-auto-number-format: 'Y:{color #ff8150}{family Wingdings} Ø {/family ...

Thanks for the prompt replies. Upon building the project (one file!) I got this for both the copy/paste and snippet cases:
2014-07-14_17-44-48.jpg
with the Ø character. I guess that is progress. (I have a pending followup on this as well.)
Anyway, it appears that one must treat the XML editor ...

Hello!

I have a snippet that looks like this:

<Wingding graphic> To do something or other:
1. Do this.
2. Do that.
3. Do something else

Additional information:
1. All formatting is via the project style sheet.
2. In the snippet the formatting looks OK: The graphic, set up with its own color as an ...

Are there any problems installing/running Flare et al under Win 7 64 bit?

Thanks for that. I'll need a bit of time to "digest it" and implement it. One thing that is clear: I'll be staying with the table style sheets rather than adding tables to the topic styles (re-use purposes).

Daniel
Junior Turbine Blade

I am moving from a FrameMaker background. FM allows you total control of table cell appearance using the Custom Ruling and Shading dialog. By contrast, the Flare Table style dialog only (seems?) to allow table ruling control at the row or column level. What am I missing? (BTW, The advice on p 106 of ...

This applies to any of the MadCap programs:

If you need anything that requires opening an external Web Browser window/tab (for example downloading a PDF document), you are always taken to Internet Explorer. I would prefer my default browser, Firefox (not as heavy). Where can you change this behavior?