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Hi,

I am looking for a Best Practice for a couple of things. I create PDF documentation for about 30 APIs. Since these documents probably won't be printed, should I still use a Back Cover and alternating Headers and Footers?

This is too funny and I just have to share, I had spent a lot of time ...

My page layout is Letter, 8.5 x11 in MC and Word.

Hi,
I have a Page Layout with .25 margins (for large data table), no header and footer. When I build the target the top and bottom margins leave room for a .50 header and footer. The left and right margins are ok. What's up?

Note: When I look at the Page Layout Margins settings in Word it does ...

Thank you for your reply. No matter how you cut it, very time consuming. :?

My previous work around was to open the code in NotePad++ and add an outline number to every line of code, copy and paste it into MadCap and then do a find and replace:

NotePad++ Example:
1{
2"ABCResponse": {
3"Response ...

Hi,

I am documenting code and I need to indent up to 11 levels and I was thinking an unordered list without bullets would be the easiest way to do it, unless someone has a better idea.
Also, if I can take it a step further I would like the indent to increase about 4 characters for every indent ...

This is so strange in my Word output the TOC generates with a right tab at 5.23, but the margin is correct at 1 inch. In the PDF target it generates correctly. I don't have a right tab set anywhere that I can find. Also, I don't have media specific formatting. Any guesses?

Well, its 2015 and I just experience it in V11.

Hi,

I have a MadCap build that has sub chapters that have a Landscape layout, other chapters are portrait. When I create a Word Output the Landscape Page layout does not change in Word.

Is this a manual process? Do I have to go into the Word doc and create section breaks to get the landscape ...

My cover page has a 3 inch high bar that covers the top of the page (edge to edge) and then a 4x4 inch graphic in the middle of the page. The images display fine in a PDF output but refuse to display in the Word Output using the same Page Layout. What's up? Do you have to do something different for ...

I copied the macro and tried to run it on the document and I received an error: Can't execute code in break mode. Any idea what is going on?

Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for.

Hi,

I am new to MadCap skins and I was wondering if it is possible to add text to the right of the logo in the header and if so how? I am using a Tri-pane layout.

Example:
Logo [text: ABC User Guide]

Next project:
Logo [text: XYZ User Guide]

Thank you in advance for your help!

I have a large 30 page table that I am going to break down into categories/separate table. Other than getting into the code is there a way split the table using MadCap?

Worst case scenario I can export to Word, split the table into multiple tables and reimport into MadCap.

Thanks for the code. This is strange I tried using the p.list and it doesn't display in the Styles pod, but if I right-click on the <p> and select Style Class List does display. Is it supposed to work that way?

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What would the css be to add the word "Step" before each number in an ordered list?

Step 1: xxxx
Step 2: xxxx

Also, I am curious what the css would be if using <p> class.

Thanks!

Every time I import a document MC creates another copy of my stylesheet and adds a number to the end of it. For example if my css is ABC.css it creates ABC1.css and then I have to do a find and replace to fix it every time and delete the stylesheet. I am importing over 30 documents. Just one more ...

Is there a way to add Unbind to the Quick Access Toolbar? The only way I know to access it is by right-clicking the P block in the left margin and selecting Unbind from the context menu.

Thanks, that worked.

I played around with making a class, this also worked:

MadCap|tocProxy.TOCDepth
{
mc-toc-depth: 3;
}

Hi,
My TOC displays to H4 in the PDF output, How can I get it to only show H1 to H3.
Thanks!

Thanks! Exactly what I needed.

Is it possible to extend an image over the page layout margin for a PDF target? I have screen shots of reports, shrinking makes them unreadable, so if the image could overlap the page layout border a little it would fix the problem.

Thank you to everyone for your comments! I ended up with the book properties for Appendix:

Printed Output tab > Page Number Reset to: {chapnum}-{n} or some projects use: Appendix {chapnum} - {n}

and then the piece I was missing :) :

Auto-numbers tab > Chapter Number > Reset to: A Format: Alpha ...

While importing a FrameMaker project I see the error:

OLE Object types are not supported

What is it having a problem with, the topic looks normal.

Yes, I've read that inline isn't the best way to do it. I haven't had any success with creating a class and I'm not sure I want one more style in the style list since it isn't used often.

I am having trouble with setting the Properies > Page Number > Reset to: ?

I want to display A - 1, A - 2, etc ...

Thanks, I found a post that pointed me to the solution:

To display: Appendix A: Title

Inline code: <h1 style="mc-auto-number-format: 'GH:Appendix {A+}: '" MadCap:autonum="Appendix A: ">Title</h1>

So, I've been able to create a class and apply the style so I now have 2 ways to make it work, but I ...