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Hi there,

What search criteria is listed in your Include Files text box? To import everything, the only string displayed in the text box should be *.*

Hi there,

I'd start with the Getting Started Guide
Link: http://docs.madcapsoftware.com/FlareV11/FlareGettingStartedGuide.pdf

This guide is only 40 pages or so long and walks you through the basic things that you need to know to get started. This should be enough to get you the skeleton project ...

Under which rare cases would we want to create a target with neither a full skin nor components?

Hi there,

One specific use case where I have used targets without skins was to create a regular website based on content that already resided in Flare. This allowed the company to single source ...

Thanks for sharing this information. I have just downloaded the Kindle version.

ChoccieMuffin wrote:I have managed to apply styles to variables, but it's a faff....

Funnily enough, that's what MapCap Support advised me to do when I asked for a method of styling variables!

I should also note that I logged a feature request recently asking MadCap to add an extra field to the Variables grid, allowing users to map variables to a specific style in the style sheet.

You can also style variables for Word outputs using the MadCap|variable css classes.

MadCap|variable
{
font-weight: bold;
}

MadCap|variable.Normal
{
font-weight: normal;
}

Note: MadCap have confirmed that this is a bug, as these classes are only intended to style the variable in Flare's ...

Hi there,

We have a script that applies a table style to each table after the Word document has been imported. This is a two-stage process, and you should be able to use a find and replace tool (or even Flare's find and replace) to do something similar.

Depending on your document import settings ...

I haven't used Lingo for a couple of years, but I believe the answer to your question is "Yes".

Lingo lets you translate the text within your style sheets, so you should be able to translate the cross reference text. Although, I'm not sure what will happen if you have not overridden the default ...

I was involved in a CHM to HTML5 conversion a couple of years ago. I think that most of the important points are covered above. Here are a couple of other things to note:

One good thing about the customizability HTML 5 output is that you can make the help system look and feel like a part of the ...

The short answer is that the bottom two files in your screenshot can be deleted, but the rest of the files are required.

I think it should be possible via a plug-in. If I get time I will have a play and see what I can come up with.

I suspect that you are right. For a real ordered list, you could probably use the ol element to reset the numbering for each list.
ol {
mc-auto-number-format: '{ =0}';
}
For a paragraph element, you would probably have to create a class to reset the numbering, or place the paragraph inside some ...

Hi there,

The last time I tested :before and :after pseudo classes in Flare, they only worked in online outputs and not in print. This may or may not be an issue any more (or at all if you are only building online outputs), but it is worth mentioning.

In my case, we used the mc-autonumber-format ...

Thanks. I've been waiting for this! The book has been ordered.

Okay. I'll walk through what I would do based on your requirements:
Works for both HTML and PDF - In my mind this pretty much sends us down the path of using pseudo classes, as this is the only method I know of that works for both output types.
Writers must be able to selectively apply the style ...

Thanks Dave and Paulie.

In addition to hearing Dave's thoughts on Paulie's question, I'm wondering the following. Apparently the styling will be applied to HTML5, but not PDF. Do you folks know how to style links in PDFs?

Thank you.

I had a quick test for you. Dave is right that the [href ...

You are on the right track with the selectors in your first post - rather than using pseudo classes.

The first [href] {} example would actually work in web outputs viewed in a browser, although it probably doesn't work in the the XML editor or PDF outputs.

Thanks Dave.

As a learning experience ...

Hi there,

Check this page out for an example of what you need to do to get your regular links working:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_pseudo_classes.asp

Alternatively, open Capture and re-save the image without the annotations. Then, in Flare click Tools > Regenerate Captured Images (I don't use the ribbon so not sure where that option will be on the ribbon). The image should be back to its original state.

Hi there,

The original image is stored in the MadCap Capture properties (image name.props) file as a Base64 string.

Having had a quick browse, you can probably use the following website to convert the Base64 string back into an image:

http://www.askapache.com/online-tools/base64-image-converter ...

Okay,

Here is what I had to add to my table style sheet to replicate what you are trying to achieve:

@media print
{
table.TableStyle-TwoTone
{
width: 100%;
}
}

@media non-print
{
table.TableStyle-TwoTone
{
width: 100%;
}
}
Note: TwoTone is the name of my table style sheet. You would ...

Starting with the simplest solution. If you want this to apply to all tables (regardless of the table style used), you could add something similar to the below to your main style sheet (instead of your table style sheet):
@media print
{
table
{
width: 100%;
}

}
@media non-print
{
table ...

Hi there,

In my style sheet (where the media was initially created in Flare), the media syntax is @media print rather than @media-print as in your example. The former will show in the Flare UI and can be assigned to a target. The latter is not visible in the Flare UI and cannot be assigned. I would ...

I have had a quick play, and adding the below to the style sheet seems to disable the search highlighting (by inheriting the style of the parent element):

span.SearchHighlight.SearchHighlight1,
span.SearchHighlight.SearchHighlight2,
span.SearchHighlight.SearchHighlight3,
span.SearchHighlight ...