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Wow, that's some fishing on your part! Glad you got it sorted out.

I as mentioned above, Flare might be hitting the limit when it first gathers and COPIES all the source files needed by the target and puts them in the Output\<your name>\Temporary folder. So it's not so much how longyour individual source files' names are. It's what the full path is to them in that ...

Yes, I’d expect. In my recent experience, we hit the issue with an image being called by a page layout. Well actually that was just the symptom. The cause was a too long target name.

The easiest solution I've seen is to create new stylesheets, one for each langauge, that import everything from the main stylesheet and then swap in the translated terms, so instead of "EXAMPLE," the stylesheet for fr-FR would use "EXEMPLE" and the stylesheet for de-DE would use "BEISPIEL". (I ...

To add to my prior reply...

A subcontractor and I hit this issue recently and realized that the file that ended up being too long was in the Temporary folder that Flare builds under the hood during its build process. To prepare to build, Flare gathers up all the files it needs to process and puts a ...

Somewhere, a file is exceeding 255 characters and so Flare comes to a halt when building. A best practice is to have your Flare projects as close to the C drive as possible, not to mention shortening excessively long filenames and folder names.

Look at the build log for this particular project to ...

So this problem/bug has been around since 2008 (and maybe before that). It's now almost the end of 2022 and it's still not fixed?! The non-breaking space is a workaround not a solution. Madcap - please fix it!
I hear your frustration, I really do. But these are peer-to-peer forums, and MadCap ...

Sorry you've having this issue. Given that you now can't open any projects, I can only suggest that you repair your Flare installation. Other than that, you might need to pitch this to MadCap Technical Support.

I'd also keep everything in one project for the time being. That's the simplest solution, and the simplest solutions are the easiest to maintain over time.

But I'd design the structure of the project such that, in future, the project could be split into a "global/corporate" project and individual ...

And you can speed up structuring lists and sublists even more by using keyboard shortcuts. Pressing Tab will indent aka start the sublist. Pressing Shift+Tab will outdent and return to the parent list. Or pressing Shift+Tab 2x will end the list and return to a plain paragraph. (At least that last ...

I have a legacy manual that contains a pre-generated PDF that has been dragged into the TOC (as seen in the TOC Editor) at the bottom of all the other files in the manual/TOC. The effect is that the pre-generated PDF is embedded within the main document at the end of all the other content.

I ...

You don't know my situation.
This is true of all of us about any of us. I'm not a MadCap employee, but am a working author like most of us here. As a consultant, I work on multiple projects simultaneously, many of them as the solo author, so I really do understand and appreciate your situation ...

Thank you, @Nita. But at present I have neither the skill nor the time to implement that.

If someone ever reads this and has a simpler idea OR code that I could copy and customize, please post and I'll thank you for that.
Sorry you feel this way. I believe in helping Flare users learn to fish ...

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Hmmm, I've never run across that before. (Then again, I personally dislike the Dynamic Help so rarely have that pane open.)

I guess I'd try to repair the installation of Flare itself. Perhaps something is hosed in the local Help system so it won't load.

If repairing (or ...

Second guessing myself, you probably *could* manage this in one stylesheet. I *think* you can create a custom style for the proxy itself. But you can't for the p.TOC1, p.TOC2, etc. However, you could craft complex selectors that define the spacing for those p styles when they appear within the proxy ...

Not in the same stylesheet. I suggest that in your main stylesheet, you define these styles as needed for the majority of your PDFs. Create a second stylesheet that imports from the main stylesheet and has just the variations for these styles as needed to achieve tighter spacing. Then, in the ...

Given that the original post is 7 years old and no one has had any suggestions all this time, I suggest you contact MadCap Tech Support for assistance. Sorry that I myself can't help with this.

It's a bit disconcerting because the footnotes are in topics that were imported from Word documents. ALL of the footnotes contain <p> tags. After each import (of which I'll be doing many in the coming months), I'll need to go back and delete them all. Ugh.

You have two options to clean up the ...

What is your HTML structure for the footnotes? In other words, kindly show us the code for those two footnotes. Not that that'll lead us to a solution necessasrily, but it's something I'd explore while troubleshooting.

It's not that you need to apply underlining; that's something you do to text. Likewise, a horizontal rule here won't work. Rather, you need to merge cells in the first and second columns. The "underlining" will be supplied by the borders on the rows.

To learn more, see https://help.madcapsoftware ...

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That said, I'm not a D2H user. But I used Chrome's browser inspection tools to look under the hood of the D2H v4 Help, and it sure looks to me like it was not generated with D2H but instead with Flare.

Given that I'm not a D2H user, I can't answer your question how to ...

Personally but meaning no disrespect to my fellows in this conversation, I question the wisdom of having the ordering of topic files in the Content Explorer match/mimic the order of items on a TOC. IMHO, that violates single-sourcing principles. In theory, a given topic can be used in any number of ...

Simply put, you can’t. MadCap has designed the HTML5 skin editor to have only those tabs. Perhaps you’re comparing an HTML5 skin editor to the old format Webhelp skin editor or even the CHM skin editor, which has those other tabs, if I recall correctly? The editors are not related.

To set up a ...

Files listed in a folder in the Content Explorer will always be in alphanumeric order, just as in Windows Explorer. You cannot otherwise control the ordering, just as you can’t in Windows Explorer, except, as you’ve noted, if you rename a file.

You can move files from one folder to another, as ...

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Not that I know of for the Content Explorer.

You might try using the File List, which does allow one to customize the columns.

In case you're not familiar with the File List, you can learn more here: https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2022/Content/Flare/Interface ...