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I'm thinking it's because you have the mc-heading-level set to 0. That's kind of like inline formatting -- it overrides what Flare would normally do because it's specifically taking it out of the scope of the generated TOC. To test it (and for basic curiosity) set your h3 tags to have mc-heading ...

Well... I'm a little mystified about just why my setup works, but it does.

Near the top of my TOC for my PDF output, I've got a title page, several miscellaneous pages that I don't want to be in the generated table of contents, and the contents page itself that holds the TOC proxy. I have the ...

Cathy,

I've done what you've done. I've got two such heading classes (I call 'em "h2.NotInContents" and "h3.NotInContents") that use mc-heading-level: 0. In fact, that attribute is the only one that distinguishes them from h2 and h3. Any headings set with either of those classes are excluded from ...

Yep. Got it on 9/30.
Nita

Variable name Definition
model catchment (variable used in most cases)
Model Catchment (used when the variable is at the beginning of a sentence)


I can't say for sure, but I would guess that the non-case-sensitive limitation is not Flare's limitation.

Why not just use a name for the second ...

Hi Heike,

Sorry that you haven't yet gotten a response to your post. I read the post several times over the last few days but only now did it dawn on me what you were asking about.

I think I understand what you're asking. You've got a figure with a figure title (what you call an image label) below ...

One of my clients distributes PDF-XChange Viewer with their applications. It's from Tracker Software. (It's free, too). I use it sometimes (like when I'm documenting my client's apps!). Very nice little viewer, with lots of markup tools.

Nita

Sorry for the late notice, but the Rochester (NY) Flare User Group will be holding its fourth (!) meeting on 9/23/09 from 6:30-8pm at Panera Bread in Brighton (Twelve Corners).

Anyone in our general vicinity is welcome to come. (Well, anyone is welcome, but certainly we don't expect folks to fly in ...

Glad to help. And you're not alone! It's quite easy to overlook things when you're new to Flare (and even when you've got years under your belt!).
Nita

Many months ago, I was was trying to accomplish the same thing for PDF and WebHelp output, having different table styles for each. One particular table was especially misbehaving in the PDF. I simply could not get its borders to behave, and they seemed to work in one row and not in another, without ...

I know how frustrated you are, but, fortunately, the solution is quite simple.

If you set the image's height property to be .5in, just set the width property to Automatic. That's how Flare will keep the aspect ratio. Same thing goes for when you know how wide you want an image to be; set its width ...

Thanks anyway, Lisa. Sorry to see that it was just a fool's dream at this point! I'll certainly add a feature request. I know that, for one of my clients at least, having "curly" quotation marks will be important to them as they are not only a software company but a publishing company. Typography ...

I was thrilled to see that Lisa had a solution for this problem. It's one I've thought about before but had not yet taken the time to pursue myself.

Lisa, I tried your technique and cannot get it to produce the "curly quotes". I modified both the English language file (en.fllng) and the English ...

Assuming you're using a later version of Flare (Flare 4.x or 5), you should use page layouts, not master pages, to set up the pages for your PDF output. It's in those page layouts that you can create title pages, left pages, right pages, etc., and can define the headers and footers.

You'll also ...

My guess is that you (or another author?) added an index link set to your project but then did not add any terms to it. (An index link set provides a way to set up "See" and "See also" links in a generated index.) The item "My Linked Term" is the default term in an index link set when it the set is ...

This is SO curious! I'll try to think of something else that might be the underlying culprit.

Right, you cannot have any variables at all defined for a TOC entry.

I politely beg to differ. I have a WebHelp project built from the ground up in Flare V5 whose TOC has loads of TOC entries with variables. The variables all resolve perfectly, and the Previous and Next buttons work perfectly ...

Well, tech support's response doesn't make sense to me either. I've got variables in my TOC entries, and my Previous and Next buttons work just fine as expected. I don't mean at all to sound smug -- that I've got it figured out and those don't. Rather, I'm just flummuxed about what is being reported ...

The Rochester (NY) Flare User Group is up and running. We're holding our fourth meeting this coming Saturday 8/22/09, and we'd be happy to have any area propeller heads who don't yet know the group to join us for breakfast, beverages, and lots of fun. We'll be meeting at the Bagel Bin Cafe in ...

Excellent suggestion, Shelley. I never have TOC items linked to bookmarks, only to topics. Perhaps that's why I don't see this particular bug.

Nita

I've been reading this topic with interest as it unfolds.

I too use hrefs for those links whose link text I want to control and xrefs for links those link text I want to match their xref-ed topic titles.

But I am confused when I read that xrefs don't support variables. They don't??? Then how is it ...

I'm so sorry to have wasted your time.

No time wasted at all! I learn a lot myself in the process of trying to help someone else. I'm glad that my questions pointed you ever so slightly in the right direction. In the end, I guess your instincts were right, that your playing with mediums is what ...

Hi Jennifer,

Can you be a little more specific:
-- In your title page layout, what kinds of pages did you define? Title? Empty? Left? etc.
-- When you say that you applied the title page layout to the title topic, do you mean that you applied it to the TOC item that is linked to the title topic ...

So, you're just going to sit on the sidelines with your tidy little separate stylesheets and watch the rest of us wallow around in it?


Yep! :lol:

Of course, that's not my main reason for not using mediums; as I wrote in my initial post, I like the idea of keeping my stylesheets "portable ...

This thread continues to fascinate me, which is why I posted the topic in the first place. I am left concluding that I'll stick with my approach of using separate stylesheets rather than mediums for my print and online outputs. That way, I won't get all balled up in the tangle of the different ...