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Is there a CSS hack needed to make a bulleted list fit within its table column? All of our tables are set to 95% width by default, and each column is set to auto for width. If other columns in the table are sufficiently wide, then the text in a bulleted list extends past the column margin.

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My outline TOC file (.fltoc) includes a topic more than once. When I build a PDF output, the page number for this reused topic is the same for every occurrence within the table of contents (generated by the TOC proxy).

Example (see red page number):

Contents

Installing ABC ... 1
Using ABC ...

Thanks! Bug submitted.

Have you found a way to show variables in xrefs to excluded topics?

Flare's Help implies that xref conditions can solve my issue by unbinding and making the xref text-only for print:
"Let's say you are creating both online and printed output from your project. You might have some content where ...

I have a special kind of WebHelp deliverable that is a single page ("start page") - I have had to trim lots of files from the output. I think I might have trimmed one too many because in the software product built with the files, when I click a pop-up link, it shows up as expected but then I can't ...

WebHelp was one of the outputs I tried. The other was PDF.

The only browser I tested in was IE7.

Hi Dave, I tried your code in our .css file and generated WebHelp and PDF outputs. No wrapping occurred in either output. (In the WebHelp, I got a scrollbar to view the full code. In the PDF, the code went off the page - there's no way to see the end of the line.)

Any ideas why this isn't working ...

Hi Kevin, the spacing is disappearing from both the editor and my output when I try the CSS changes I posted.

My Flare topic includes paragraphs that are tagged with <pre> to preserve extra spaces and tabbing. However, long lines extend off the page.

How can I get my PRE-tagged paragraphs to wrap?

The excellent ideas posed on the following websites to define PRE in the stylesheet don't appear to work ...

Awesome - thanks, Lisa!

This thread is very useful. Thanks, Dave, Lisa, and other contributors!

I've noticed that PDFs don't indent <p> tags within lists. WebHelp and other online outputs do the indentation, but not PDF. So I created a print-specific complex selector "ol p" with a margin-left value of 18 points ...

Thanks, Lisa. I think my head's going to explode now. Wow, that's a lot to think about!

Seriously, though, I appreciate your reply, and I will log a feature enhancement request.

Okay, this is a long shot. As far as I can tell, the xref format possibilities are constrained to information found in the referenced topic, such as title, first heading, bookmark, and page number. I would like xrefs to be smart enough to go beyond identifying the referenced topic to also ...

JRP, I tried out Dave's suggestion and found that if you select the Paste as Inline Text option, the pasted code takes up only one line of the xhmtl in the topic file. However, this method does result in the added markup " xml:space="preserve" " within the <pre> tag.

To tag code with <pre> in the ...

Good to know - thanks, Dave!

My method for tagging chunks of code with the <pre> tags is to open the topic with Internal Text Editor, type in the <pre> and </pre> tags on new lines, and paste the code inbetween these two lines. In my files, the tags read "<pre>" without any classes or other information inserted by MadCap into ...

Good point, Kevin. Thanks for the input.

I appreciate the reply, Lisa.

It seems easier to open the topic with internal text editor, type a "<pre>" tag, paste the indented code, and type a "</pre>" tag at the end. In the absence of other ideas, I think our team will stick with this approach rather than pasting the indented code into the ...

How about multiple indent levels? How should code with four or five levels of indent be (a) copied into a Flare topic and (b) tagged?

Writers on my team have code samples they need to copy and paste into Flare and then appropriately tag. The method we are following right now is to paste it into the ...

What is a good practice for setting up stylesheet tags for indenting code samples? What tags should be defined to handle indenting?

(in the example below, the lines "?x" and "?y" are indented)

For example:
PREFIX ABC_ZZ: <http://example.com>
SELECT ?x ?y
WHERE {
?x ABC XYZ
?y ABC ZYX
}

The size savings from the .chm is actually misleading, I heard from my boss just now. The .chm file is already compressed and thus the 156 KB size does not represent the true "memory footprint" - the .chm file size is really much larger and probably worse than the uncompressed 184 KB size of the ...

FYI. The HTMLHelp (.chm) output was 156 KB (single file) versus 184 KB (12 files) with the WebHelp output. Not sure about .xaml connection support, and I thought I read that .chm files didn't work on Vista, so we might be stuck with the slightly larger WebHelp output that requires post-processing to ...

Paul, great analysis and suggestion to use Dreamweaver. I would prefer to "keep it all in the family" as we're using Flare as a cheap content management system.

I'm sure the smart MadCap folks will come up with something....

I haven't tried .chm yet - thanks for the idea! I'll give it a shot to see if number of files and output size are reduced that way.

More details for anyone considering a Start Page deliverable or similar single-file output, or for anyone who may have wanted to offer advice but needed more information. :)

My goal was to deliver a set of drop-down headings that could be easily connected to the .xaml file governing the Start Page ...