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The screenshot is from the Online Help. It seems OK in the pdf.

I have a table with defined column widths and line thicknesses. I've inserted the same table 5 times - the only difference is the data in the table. What's causing me a headache is the fact that the lines vary in thickness between the tables and the column widths do too! Can anyone advise me as to ...

Just checking back to see if anyone has any suggestions. I have lots of terms such as "]Display" that I need to write about, and have a line break after the right bracket is just plain wrong. I've tried inserting non-breaking zero-width spaces/word joiners (U+2060 / ⁠), I've played with "nowrap" and ...

I'm having issues with this too. I can't get Flare 10 to honour irrespective of whether I enter it directly in XML or use the shift+space option. I've also tried a nowrap class but every time the output is still breaking when I generate the pdf. Has anyone else had this? I'm not inside any other ...

I didn't manage to get it working even after Nita's fantastic answer, so I can't help you (but will be thrilled if someone can as then I can fix it in my docs too!)...

Thanks ajturnersurrey. However, I'm completely new to Flare...the facility might be there by default but how do I produce it? I have a single project with several dozen individual pdfs, each with an index. I can't work out how to produce a new pdf document called "Master Index" that contains an ...

I have a single project from which I generate multiple pdfs (as well as other targets, but it's the pdfs I'm interested in right now). I would like to produce a master index for all these in addition to the individual indexes that each pdf has. I'm flailing in the dark rather in trying to create ...

Is it possible to have leading separators for "see" index links? At the moment I have a style of "span.SeeIndex" with "mc-reference-initial-separator: '.';" and "mc-leader-format: 'dot';" set but this isn't doing the job.

What I'm aiming for:

bob..........see fred

What I'm getting:

bob see fred

I'm finally at the stage of adding my index entries and I can't work out how to add one of the things I want. Basically I want to have a statement that doesn't link to anything. For example:

Functions........
Modifiers........
Syntax.........
[i] for specific functions, see individual entries ...

Thankyou, works a treat!

Not sure whether to be really happy that it's sorted or to curl up in a ball and cry that I wasted so much time when it's such a straightforward fix...either way though, very grateful

Been battling this for days now and would love some help. It's a bit tricky to explain but please do bear with me as I'm now desperate!

I have nine very similar styles of note (actaully all the same but with different images. Each one is defined in the css as follows:

div.note_information ...

That's sounds promising Nita but I'm not sure exactly to set that in the css. Using span isn't one of the format options in the auto-numbering format (as {b} is)...can you give me some more info please?

Not sure if it's important, but it's the cross-reference to the number that I want to be non ...

I thought I was being a tad optimistic. Hey ho, will do it the long way.

Thanks for your advise (yet again!).

Nita to the rescue again :-)

Unfortunately I don't think that I explained my issue well enough (not good in a technical author!). I want the same index keyword to be slightly different in the pdf and HTML5 output. I think that I can achieve this by adding the entry twice, once for each target, and ...

Is this possible? I would like to have an index entry read one thing in the pdf and another thing in the HTML5 output (but point to the same page). I can't find any way to have conditional index keywords. I really hope I'm missing something obvious...

I've set up an auto numbering system for my tables, in which:

mc-auto-number-format: 'T: {b}Table {chapnum}-{n+}: {/b}';

This works perfectly in terms of numbering. However, I've got an issue when cross-referencing a table. I've got the following in my css:

MadCap|xref.table
{
mc-format ...

No idea why but setting "mc-leader-offset: 25px;" sorted me out.

Ridiculously proud of my lovely index now :-)

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Now on to the line spacing and adding the rest of the index terms.

Thanks so much for your help Nita, it's great that experienced users like you are prepared to help us ...

I'm going to be all arrogant now and say that I might be getting the hang of this Flare thing – I'd done exactly that (and it works) before you posted!

Befuddled by these page numbers though; I've set the attribute to right, left and centre and it makes no difference.

Nita, you're a genius! I have no idea how I ended up with two body frames, but I've deleted one of them and I now get two columns – wahey!

My page numbers still aren't working and my heading has fallen down into the columns but I'm just ever so happy to have that superimposition issue sorted ...

I've removed the extra bits I did (specifically, I've reset the index proxy and all the index styles from 2-column back to default). I also set the alignment to right for the index styles (the mc-leader-align property) and I now get my rows of dots stretching right across the page! Not sure if that ...

Thanks Nita, I'd appreciate that.

I definitely have 2 columns in my page layout (and I definitely have this page layout applied to the index)

Time to admit that I need help with print target Index.

I have defined a 2-column page layout and applied it to my Index topic (which contains the Index proxy).
I have included the Index topic in my TOC and set it to have a break and then the correct page layout.

I've made sure the index proxy and ...

Is there a way of specifying "make the table as wide as it needs to be to fit this information in and no wider but if that's not wide enough then 100%"?

Is it possible to tell Flare never to break on a hyphen, slash or backslash? I know that I can force individual hyphens to be non-breaking but I'm hoping that there's some way I can state these three specific non-breaking rules (important for the docs I'm writing and was v easy in FrameMaker, so got ...

I need to be able to apply this style to words that already have a character style.

For example, I need to apply it to paragraph text that is Calibri size 12, table text (another paragraph style) that is Calibri size 11 and a code sample inline with the text (a character style) that is APL385 font ...