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Hello all,

I am often finding that I need to open a second copy of Flare (the master document) in order to make small edits to its master documents. It would be nice that when I open a topic copied by Project Importer, I am offered the option to save any edits back to the source topic.

I have ...

In what is becoming an annual tradition, I have submitted a new feature request for 2016.

I am a bit miffed because I had to do a document update where I removed a footnote which then changed the footnote values and I forgot to manually update the "faked" footnote values... I released a document ...

I certainly need it, primarily to get rid of a pageful of repreated footnotes in PDF.

Have submitted feature request.

BTW: How come you get a feature request number? I don't...


Sorry for the really slow response... you have to request the feature request number through support. Yes, too bad ...

It's a bit of a fudge, but if you get no further suggestions could you start your footnotes with a non-breaking space, so the space separates the number and the comment, but not the number from the following punctuation in the body of the topic?

It is a fudge but thanks for the suggestion. The ...

Hello all,

I have some breathing room to work on some documentation fine tuning. This one has bothered me for some time.

In order to place a space between the footnote number and the footnote comments, I needed to add a space after {n} in, mc-footnote-format: '{n} ';
However, this space also ...

FYI

Somewhat off-topic but I am framing this as something that Flare really needs!

I just discovered this remarkable InDesign <> Google Docs collaboration tool called DocsFlow ( http://emsoftware.com/products/docsflow/ ).

This tool facilitates two-way collaboration between Google Docs and ...

I just begun using conditions within images (by way of MadCap Capture) and I must say, this works amazingly well. Kudos to the MadCap team.

But I have one wish... that is it would be nice to see an indicator on whether or not an image was 1) modified by Capture and 2) which conditions (color boxes ...

I haven't seen a post on this topic... so, for your reading pleasure:

MadCap Flare v12 release notes: http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/Content/Flare/General/GEN1052F_-_Flare_12_Release_Notes.htm

MadCap Flare v12 documentation (in a single zip file): http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare12/Content ...

The best way I have found is to use offset numbers that are outside the head and add a corresponding margin.
h1
{
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 18pt;
font-size: 18pt;
font-family: Arial;
mc-hyphenate: never;
margin-left: 35px;
mc-auto-number-position ...

Vanessas wrote:This solution worked for me too!

Good.

BTW, MadCap support answered my query about this issue by saying that the cause was unknown. Now that I've upgraded to v12, I will wait and see if it happens again.

The styles looks a bit dodgy to me. You appear to be setting the same inline width (640px) on both the div and the image that's supposed to be inside it; but as the div also has padding, then that's going to be impossible.

I'm not sure why it's different from v11 and v12, but you could press F12 ...

Another change that I am trying to correct is where I wrap screen captures inside a <div> tag box...

In v11 and earlier, the <div> tag box would automatically resize around the contained image. So even if my width was set too small, it would still result in a 'contained' image.
In v12, many of my ...

System Dates previously were based off the System Locale.
Now they are based off the Project/Target language.
This might explain the difference.

Thanks Rob but why isn't this noted in the release notes? http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/Content/Flare/General/GEN1052F_-_Flare_12_Release_Notes.htm ...

I'm all for upgrades but it isn't a great idea to make changes that affect projects written in prior versions of Flare; in my case, Flare v11. :( :x

Now, I understand that I can likely fix these problems by making Flare configuration changes and editing my master css file(s) but gosh darn, that is ...

In the meantime, I was thinking about the possibility of installing MadCap Contributor on a remote access Windows server that any SME can easily access from any type of workstation. Has anyone tried this?

Of course, it must be as easy to access as the current GDocs so that I don't inhibit reviews.

Hello all,

It's been a long time since I talked about this topic and I was reminded about this pain-point with the latest Windows-only release of Contributor.

Since way back in version 8, I have requested that MadCap consider making an OS agnostic version of Contributor. It is very frustrating ...

Yes, it works! Thanks a million! Conditions are one of those features that I literally set up (a long time ago) and forgot how to use. LOL

It's in the Target Editor dummy! Thanks again.

Thanks for your replies!

I think you each pointed out the silliness of my mistake (I hope). I'll confirm your suggestions later today.

Hello all,

I am using a decoration in my cover page layout that has several lines of text variables. To one line, I have assigned a condition tag so that it will only be printed when the condition is flagged from the TOC. However, no matter what I have tried, I cannot prevent that line from being ...

kwag_myers wrote:I haven't seen it for a while, either. However, I do (from time to time) encounter files with no formatting and use NotePad++ with the XML Tools plugin to fix it.

Although I haven't encountered this problem, +1 for NotePad ++

NotePad ++ is also the best tool for editing project css files.

Was this issue ever fixed? It is still happening in 11.1.

I have not encountered this problem in a long time.

I also seem to recall that this problem only appeared under certain conditions... I think it was a particular error in the HTML that caused Flare to remove all the HTML formatting.

I ...

jasonsmith wrote:MadCap|xref.ListOfPageNumber?

That's it! Brilliant! Thank you!

Hello all,

I am tying to duplicate the style used by my index proxy, where the page number is a different color than the index text.

The page number color is controlled here:

MadCap|xref.IndexPageNumber
{
font: calibri;
font-size: 10pt;
color: #800000;
text-transform: capitalize;
text ...

OT but speaking of paths, I do have a weird one...

For PDF publication, I have attached a link to the table of contents on the logo that appears in the footer of a Global Project Linked page layout.

The code is:

<xhtml:td xhtml:style="text-align: left;padding-left: 2px;padding-right: 2px ...

I noticed that this H6 header also appeared in the index... this was undesirable and unintended. So, I added mc-heading-level: 0; to the header style but unfortunately, that also removed it from the page header.
I bumped into something similar a few weeks ago: mc-heading-level fighting with ...