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I was also having a hard time with this, I am using inline formatting, and after 3 hours I finally have it:

Display: Chapter 1: Title

Inline code:
<h1 style="mc-auto-number-format: 'CH:Chapter {chapnum}: ';" MadCap:autonum="Chapter 1: ">Title<h1>



Display: Appendix A: Title

<h1 style="mc-auto ...

I copied the block of code and pasted it into the stylesheet and it doesn't display in the available styles list. When I deleted the code ":before" from "h1.a:before", it displays in the style list.

In the project I inherited it has auto numbering for chapters that displays like this:

Chapter 1: XXXXXXX

Code:
<h1 style="mc-auto-number-format: 'CH:Chapter {chapnum}: ';" MadCap:autonum="Chapter 1: "> Chapter Topic Template</h1>

I need to also do this for the Appendix so it looks like this ...

This seems to be working:

p.pageBreakBefore
{
page-break-before: always;
}

I am importing a Word 2010 document into MadCap 10 and I mapped the bold and italic characters to the MC styles. When I look at the output the bold and italics words are not formatted. I looked at the code and there is nothing there.

What's up????

Soo happy to import and have bullets display without manually redoing every bullet. This seems to be working:

p.bulletL1
{
margin-left: 5px;
padding-left: 15px;
background-image: url('Images/smallgray.gif');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
list-style-position: outside;
}

p.bulletL2
{
margin ...

I one chapter in a 20 chapter import that refuses to import from Frame into Flare. The error message is:

MIF: "C"\Project\xxxxxx\Chapter10.fm.mif.mifiimages\20.mif'(15675): Missing Dimension.

I also see the MadCap error: A PDF file is taking a long time to save, do you want to abort? Over and over ...

I've seen some complex fixes for the problem of FM bullets/lists being imported as paragraphs anyone have an easy solutions?

I was wondering if it would be possible to create a paragraph style that had a bullet before the text. When I add the image to the paragraph style, p.bullet, the paragraph ...

Right-click on the page layout in the Project Organizer and choose the option to open it in the Internal Text Editor was the fix.
Thanks!

The Find and Repace OldtableStyle.css with NewTableStyles.css seems to work, so far it doesn't look like it broke anything. Thanks!

I am importing a FrameMaker project and I am using the wizard. I select to not use the FM styles and map to my Flare stylesheet. When I get to the Character mapping I have the following:

FramMaker Style is: Italics
Flare Style: I map to: i.iItalics

Question 1: In the output the code says: <span ...

Yea!!!!! Thanks! Changing it in the Table Properties > General tab > Number of header rows, fixes my existing tables, but I still have a problem...

Question: How do I make the number of header rows always "1" for my table stylesheet without have to apply it every time?

I am in the Default medium ...

I created a simple table format with a gray Header row. When I insert a table and apply the style the header row does not display in gray. Also, it doens't create the the <thead> code, just a regular row. When the table breaks over a page the header row doesn't repeat.

To troubleshoot I created a ...

Is there a tool that I can run to reset the table style on all tables in my project and then apply my table style to all tables?

Hi,
I was wondering how I can force a page break before a paragraph. I've tried various formats of "page-break-before: always;" without any success.
Thanks!

Hi,

I have a page layout with a header and footer that are misbehaving and I was wondering if I can access the code behind it? I press F2 and display it in the bottom of the window but I don't see the option to view the code.

Also, can you attach a stylesheet to a page layout?

Thanks!

Hi,

I am trying to edit an image using Snagit and when I try to save it the following message displays: This file is set to read-only. Try again with a different file name. I don't want to change the property on every image before I edit it....

Steps:
Right-click on an image > Open with ...

What properties do I need to set? I have selected Avoid in multiple places and it doesn't change anything.

I just found the answer:
1) Open the TOC for the PDF output
2) Click on the first topic (Login) and press F4 (or use right-click > Properties)

I only needed to change my first topic to get it to work right, you might need to change more....

Break Type: Page Layout Break
Page Type: (select the ...

I am having a problem displaying a header on the first page of my pdf output. I tried a simple test, I typed "header" in the header frame and nothing displays in the output. Any ideas to what's going on? I even added it to all pages and still nothing. I checked the Targets Master Page Layout and it ...

Hi,

I am working with a 2 col pdf target. I have multiple tables that have a header followed by an intro paragraph. The problem I am having is that the table will break to the next column or page when there is plenty of room to print 1 or 2 rows before breaking.

Any way to stop it from breaking ...

Is there a way to set the Table width for all tables using the TableStyle Editor that I am missing? I am looking for a way to train other people to do it without manually adding css.

We have many annotations in our projects and it would nice to be able to see the creation date without clicking on it and mouse over it just right to get it to display.

The WebHelp skin sounds like what I was looking for, too bad it doesn't work for HTML5.

Is it possible to make a Search page the default? Most of our users don't have a mouse and I was thinking that having Search as the default view might be the best solution, thoughts?