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...you need to manually drag and drop for every item...

You can multiselect in the Content Explorer or File List, and drag to the TOC that way, rather than doing each topic individually. In this way, you could add all the topics to the TOC simultaneously, and then rearrange them as desired.

So ...

Hi, Joanne,

When you say "view" it, do you mean when you open the Related Topics Control inside of Flare? Or do you mean when you've built the output or previewed the topic?

Is there a better way to show hyperlinks? What are your thoughts?

I'm not sure it's better, but in my PDFs I use underlined links to indicate URLs that will navigate out of the PDF, and links without text-decoration to indicate cross-references within the document. We have a blurb at the ...

Hey, all,

This is not a perfect solution, but in the course of our documentation, we wanted to have a "Before You Begin" dropdown that opened automatically when the page was loaded. I created kind of a clunky script that was able to open a single instance of a specifically-named dropdown. This won ...

It's a little more advanced, but you can also use the ::before selector to add images to your notes/hints/tips. We do this in part because most of the icon images we use are actually from a font file (a la the way Font-Awesome does things). Here's a glance at what they look like:

notestyledemo.png ...

Are you seeing the spacing lost in the actual exported version of the Lingo project? The XML looks correct to the XLIFF specification, and should rebuild the spaces when it's output to a new project.

This reminded me of another issue I'd read--if you check the text editor in Flare, what kind of ...

...because Flare treats multi-tagged conditions as OR instead of AND, so checking the Exclude checkbox doesn't work for those.


Using the advanced way of maintaining conditions is great! The behavior your describing, though, I've only encountered if you're using the Include option in your target ...

You mean Import TMX and Export to TMX? On the Resources tab?

TMX files are Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) files from tools such as Trados and memoQ. That's not what I want to do. I want to combine two Lingo translation memories.

That's true, but you can use them to merge two Lingo DBs.

Here ...

I can't quite remember now, but I think that I didn't get the results that I was looking for with the vertical-align attribute, and so resorted to the negative bottom margin.

I think the only issue with using the margin-bottom method is that it's not "respectful" to other elements. For example ...

Some images I've put together must retain the same aspect ratio for the width and height so I need to avoid stretching the image in one dimension only.

Sorry about that, I think I tucked my not-so-clear warning in the last line of my first post, but should have emphasized it. The aspect ratio ...

Is there some automagical property I can set that will resize the image automatically so that it fits the available width of the page, sans margins? I don't know if it's something I would do to the image or the topic, or something else.

I usually do something like this, applied to the image ...

I'd recommend either changing the old folder name or making a backup first.

Definitely backup, yeah. =)

I guess I was confused because, in my experience, the update to a Lingo-exported Flare project is inherent, in that you shouldn't have lost any existing translation. I.E., when you update the ...

What is happening is that if I highlight the [hde] for example and apply the DBT Code Style, the whole line changes to red. This was all working OK.

I can't say for sure, but it sounds to me like you're expecting to apply a class (i.e. style) to a span, and instead the class is getting applied to ...

This sounds like a workflow issue. I'm not totally clear: is there a reason why you don't just delete the older version and replace it with the new version?

Can you give a quick example?

What I'm finding in Flare is that I can apply the italic style to one of the bold words but it loses its bolding...I need it to retain that.

Definitely sounds like something is weird. In the case of a class, italics (or, style) and bold (or, weight) aren't even applied using the same property ...

If you haven't tried it already, you can also create a class that would assign a vertical-align property to the image, which may help. Nita's definitely works, this is just utilizing the CSS property that exists for just this sort of issue. Here's a JSfiddle demonstrating what each vertical-align ...

Do you want to avoid using the Send for Review feature because of the Contributor requirement?

Sorry about that -- was writing mine while you submitted yours!

We ran into that exact issue at work.

There's a couple workarounds that were tried:
1) p.indent style that uses margin-left to force the paragraph to match the item indentation.
2) li.clean style that, as you described, removes the ...

Why is the Flare publishing log saved out on the server in this new folder dated 2/13/2008, instead of today???

Dumb question, but did you check your system time? A quick test of switching system time showed that the log date will reflect the current system time (e.g. I had my logs showing 2/18 ...

It might be worth checking how you've defined colors for the a element in the project, too (here's a jsfiddle demonstrating some of the issues that can arise based on the way you've defined colors: https://jsfiddle.net/MattyQ/8yfgk6qz/1/ ).

It looks like the Chrome community forums list some people ...

I'm sure that there must be an easy solution using a div but I can't seem to hit on it - can anyone help by constructing a simple div, or whatever that will solve my problem, and also save what little hair I have left?

EDIT: Not sure you can use it, since I created the project in 10, but here's ...

Except that I can't get the images to scale, with not having that choice in the editor and not knowing how to set the size otherwise. Anyone else know how to do this?

Thanks!

Can you post some of the CSS you're trying to use? I generally do all my stylesheet changes in a text editor (Notepad ...

@Dave, thanks so much for these workarounds. They've proved super useful in developing our unique skin for our Flare product. Linking in the new stylesheet is such a simple, yet elegant, solution. It gave me the foundation I needed to add a little extra jquery to help exert more control over the ...

Thanks very much for the follow up! I'll check out switching the list. Much appreciated.