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Thank you, Dave. I see what you're saying. Fortunately for me, in this one case, I wanted to clear all those other p tags as well. However, I am going to make a note for future reference.

I have been wondering about regex and Far5; specifically, I have been wondering why searches in Far5 don't ...

Hi Dave,

Thank you for your clarification; the regex beast is a tough beast to tame!

Those searches worked for some reason. There are no "<p style" entries in my project after I replaced all. I did it this way because I didn't want to remove "<p MadCap" or "<p class=" tags; I just wanted to ...

Hi,

A few weeks ago, this post discussion helped me replace the local formatting on all images with image styles: http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19140

For some reason, it has taken me a few weeks and the Holiday weekend to figure out how to adapt the regular expression find ...

@Dave - No matter how many images I put in the mc-image property, the original graphic displays. Is there some other property setting that needs to be set up to work with mc-image?

@Dave - I imported the files again to do another test. When I right-click on files, the Convert to XML option is grayed-out. I don't know why and can't find anything in the Help that would explain it to me. I do know that at some point in the last conversion - and I don't know why - I was prompted ...

Just following up on the HTML tag removal. There is a very easy way to do this that I just discovered yesterday: right-click on the inside HTML tag and select Unbind. This will remove the top and bottom HTML tags.

Unbind2ndHTMLTags.png

You still have to do it one file at a time, but it is much ...

@Dave - Thank you. I had a feeling it was something like that, but I wanted to make sure.

Is there a way to change the graphic that shows up next to related topics?
I tried adding a background image to the MadCap | helpControlMenu and that didn't do it.

So, if I change the styling for MadCap|HelpControlMenu and MadCap|relatedTopics in the Modern.css located in

C:\Program Files (x86)\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare V9\Flare.app\Resources\English\Templates\StyleSheets

those changes will show up in my project that uses the styles.css? Or do I need to ...

Thanks Dave! That is great to know!

Thank you, Dave. That is a huge help.

Hi,

My manager is trying to take advantage of server-side includes (SSI) to reduce the load time for items like the footer table. Does Flare support this functionality?

I would need to be able to:

1. Insert include statements at the bottom of topics - I have run some experiments and am not sure ...

@Marjorie - How do you control what the ID is? I thought the system assigned it.

My manager would like to have the links leave off the ".htm" at the end and I'm not sure how to do that at the moment. If I made my IDs like yours, would that deliver what he has asked?

What you're saying is making sense. Thank you for the analogy about the phone system; that crystallizes what I've been seeing into a usable framework.

Is that code sample from the Alias javascript file produced during compile? The one here: Output\Data\alias.js? That's the closest thing I see in my ...

When you say remain the same, do you mean "\Website Output\Default_CSH.htm#TopicID"?

The developers have given me a spreadsheet and asked me to enter the links for each window. I've never done it this way.

I know the topic that matches each window (for the most part), but I don't know what link ...

Final follow up - with the fix!

This issue came down to two things:

1. I had to uninstall .NET (completely!) and reinstall it.
2. I had to remove the XML tags.

For some reason, when these files were converted to XML, XML opening and closing tags were added to each file:

<xml version="1.0 ...

Hi,

My web output is to HTML5. My company has put this on a web site as opposed to a local copy inside the software. They would like to link that web site from the software. Furthermore, they would like those links to be context-sensitive to the module level. This means about 12 to 15 links.

I am ...

Hi Paul,

I think I'm following this discussion and realized that I have been doing this the hard way for a number of years. In the past, I just gave the developer the topic names and they hard-coded it.

Using the method you describe, it seems like they still have to hard-code it; it's just that ...

Just following up on this issue in case anyone has any ideas.

I contacted MadCap and they suggested that I delete the Content and Analyzer folders as well as some hidden system folders and then repair the .NET installation. I have done this twice to no avail. MadCap cannot reproduce this problem ...

Thanks Marjorie!

That's simple enough.

Does anyone know what this little icon in the Text Editor means ?
Originally, I thought it was a manual line break, but that's not it. I don't know how to look it up in the Flare help because I don't know what to call it.

@Paul - This is very helpful. Thanks!

1. I would love to know how to rebuild a TOC. This is the first time I have ever heard this phrase. How would you do it?

2. It turned out not to be the TOC but the stylesheet. I reached out to MadCap Support and it turned out to be code that I don't ever remember putting in my stylesheet. Code that ...

I have narrowed this down to a corrupted TOC. Does anyone have any troubleshooting suggestions?

I don't use auto-generated anything in the H1 style. Could it be coming from the TOC?

I am having the oddest problem. The first letter of each Heading 1:


appears larger than the rest of the letters; almost as if I selected smallcaps (which I did not)
has a line above and below it
cannot be deleted in the XML Editor (I can delete it in the Text Editor)
when selected in the ...