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kmorrison

Thanks. That'll be a partial solution if I can get it to work, and "learn how to Python" is on my list of things to do. Though It's getting farther and farther from the top of the list...

kmorrison

Last year at MadWorld, we saw a presentation about using AI Assist in MadCap Central to edit topics. (https://documentation.madcapsoftware.com/central/Content/Central/Projects/Step2-Authoring/AI-Assist/AI-Assist.htm) It looked neat, except we can't use the feature because of intellectual property ...

kmorrison

I can think of a couple of different ways to handle this:

If it's feasible, make one page layout file, but use some combination of condition tags and variables so that layout will be rendered a little differently in the different outputs. For example, you might include alternate condition-tagged ...

kmorrison

I don't know if it's the best possible solution, but I define the max-widths in the stylesheet at the level of the elements that are expected to be children of the <body> tag, such as paragraphs, divs, headings, and tables. This way, if I want to have a different max-width for something, such as a ...

kmorrison

Thanks Nita. Well, at least now I don't have to feel silly about not being able to find the super simple way.

We use Subversion and branching is one possible way to do it, but (as the person who fields most of the questions about these things on the team) I think many people on the team will be ...

kmorrison

Is there a really simple way to just permanently delete anything marked with a given condition tag from a Flare project?

The use case is that there is a software feature that is being replaced with a new feature. To provide documentation for the beta version of the update, I'm hiding the content ...

kmorrison

What we do is host the videos elsewhere and then embed them in Flare content. The video hosting site we use (Vidyard) is nicely set up for subtitling videos. It even has some pretty decent automated voice recognition that does a first pass at subtitles for you. Vidyard isn't free, but if that's an ...

kmorrison

We used to use divs for notes, tips, and cautions. However one thing I discovered several years ago about divs in Flare was that in PDF outputs, the rules about where page breaks belong (mainly widows and orphans rules) went out the window inside divs. We ended up with a bunch of pages containing ...

kmorrison

I was going to say the same thing as doloremipsum about the structure bars. Note that these bars at the top are the Span Structure Bars, and they can be turned on and off. (https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2021r2/Content/Flare/Interface/Editors/XML-Editor/Structure-Bars/Structure-Bars.htm ...

kmorrison

I'd been finding the stylesheet editor - particularly entering comments about styles - to be painfully slow, particularly with longer stylesheets, before I installed Flare 2022.

I did some test builds with Flare 2022 right after I installed it and found that most projects took a little longer to ...

kmorrison

Another department in our organization is looking at maybe getting Acrolinx to help folks to use a consistent tone and stick to the approved terms for things, and they reached out to the tech writers to see if we had any experience with it or a similar tool. We don't. But Acrolinx claims to ...

kmorrison

The first version that they released had a bug where it would only retrieve content from a limited number of spaces, but I thought that was fixed in later versions, or at least if you contact Madcap, they can give you something that will fix it.

kmorrison

Here's what we are currently using:

<noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-######" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe>
</noscript>
<script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':
new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm ...

kmorrison

As far as I can tell, it's possible to turn off expand/collapse indicators on a topic that I am editing, but as soon as I switch to another topic or close and open the topic, they're back.

Is there some obscure way to turn them off permanently for all topics, by any chance?

(I'm currently using ...

kmorrison

Thanks! Flex boxes were just the thing. Everything is behaving now.

A note for people who might be wrestling with a similar problem in the future: I found that specifying the flex display option prevented my divs from changing layout when the mobile break-point was hit, so I ended up with all ...

kmorrison

I'm tinkering with responsive divs on a landing page. What I want to do is have a row of divs that are all the same height, even though they contain different amount of text. I'm envisioning the parent div having whatever height it needs to have to contain the child div with the most text at ...

kmorrison

... and this is magically fixed by upgrading from 2019 to 2019r2.

kmorrison

Does the on-boat one have to be a PDF? Or could it be a type of output that gets its layout from a master page, which can be applied via the topic properties?

kmorrison

My experience with re-importing anything so far is that it simply overwrites my changes. Making detailed changes to topics that will need to be re-imported later is probably not a great use of anyone's time.

kmorrison

If you disabled the <em> style, it won't be available in the editor. Any chance that could have happened, yonatanlehman ?

kmorrison

I solved this one by editing the image file itself (a .png) to make it partly transparent.

kmorrison

Is there some kind of global setting that would cause SVG graphics in a project to get convered to PNGs when targets are built? When I build my projects, the SVGs stay SVGs (as they should) in the HTML5 tripane output. However, on the system that runs automated nightly builds using the same source ...

kmorrison

Chicago_HPT wrote:
On a side note, I'm surprised that's still an issue. It's been around for a while now and it's hugely annoying. </rant>

<validation>I get that happening too. As you say, it's annoying.</validation>

kmorrison

I'll just chime in and say I had a similar issue with "past" and "paste" and it is now officially bug #145814.
I've turned off micro-content until this is fixed, since our subject matter includes a lot of terms that begin with the same letters but aren't even close to equivalent.

That said, I'm ...

kmorrison

Open the table style you want to use, as though you were going to make changes to the style.
Right at the top of the table style tab, there's a little inconspicuous button that says "Apply Style..." Click it. The box that pops up is fairly self-explanatory, I think, in terms of what it does.

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