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Thank you for the quick reply, Nita!

My notes look like this in word:

{b}{color #135296}Note: {/color}{/b} Text text text text

Notes appear as they should in PDF output.

I copied 'mc-auto-number-format: '{b}{color #135296}Note: {/color}{/b}' into the print section, but the output looked the same (no fix).

Here's the CSS for HTML ...

Thanks, Leslie. I has been using SourceTree in Flare 11, but I abandoned it when Flare 12 supported SSH.

I still set things up incorrectly in the new Git environment. Going forward, I need to create one project for each archived/released doc version, and have a Git repo created for each version ...

Thanks dcisneros. Every user tip is appreciated, and your solution will be one more thing for me to examine to clear up my errors.

As for finding/replacing undefined (post deleted) variables, searching in source code crashes Flare every single time.

I have a dilemma where I need to backport a significant update from master to an earlier branch.

ENVIRONMENT
Single Flare12 project is bound to Git via the Flare interface
Two branches
Single-person writing team

I was hoping I could run two instances of Flare and copy tables from master into ...

(I run Flare on a Windows VM (OS X host.)

Most Flare operations work very quickly in my environment, but switching between master and branches can take five minutes or more. This really slows me down when I am resolving a customer-reported bug for in-market doc.

After I've make edits and committed ...

Thank you, Dave. The report was super fast, but I'll try the source code method next.

The Madcap Flare 12 Deleting Variables topic makes the task dangerously simple. When I followed the instructions, I expected Flare to prompt me to convert all instances of the target variable to plain text.

It did not. Instead, the topic had a new (Undefined variable: VariableName) variable where ...

I'm trying to get preformatted (code) output to wrap. Often I'll just force a soft return, but in this case, I want readers to be able to copy and paste a line of code where breaks would mess things up for them.

Here's my pre style

pre
{
font-size: 12pt;
background-color: #edf0f1;
white-space ...

After poking around a bit, I noticed that the Bookmarks entry appeared in guides where I had manually created "mini tocs" in longer topics. For example, an "in this section" thingy at the top of the topic. Those markers appeared in PDF bookmark frame under the Bookmark entry.

In the target, I ...

This showed up today in PDF output, and I am not sure what's causing it.

bookmarks.png

The only 'suspicious' changes I made were:

* Changed CH1 entries in the TOC from First Right to Continue L/R
* Changed the mc-format of MadCap|xref from "{para}" {pageref} to "{para}" on page {page}

Despite ...

Never mind. I shut down and restarted Flare and all worked as it should.

I'm bumping this old topic because I can't figure out how to exclude my See Also headings from my PDF Contents page.

I quickly realized I'd applied the h2 style on those headings, which should appear in the TOC.

So in the print medium, I:

Created a new class called h2.SeeAlso
Set mc-heading ...

Deleting the target crashed Flare.

This target was in a batch file (automated, I assume--I never added it/haven't used batch targets yet). I removed the link, and Flare crashed after briefly displaying an IO exception, but I wasn't fast enough to read/screen capture it.

I'll try again.

ETA: All ...

Thanks very much. I will delete all the unused targets!

The Flare 12 doc says you can add, open, edit, import, and rename targets, but I could find no mention of deleting them. I also didn't see anything on this forum, so I wonder if I am overthinking things.

Logic tells me I should be able to expand Project > Targets and right-click delete, but I am ...

Just a guess... Was the remote Git server down?

I did wonder about that. After I closed the "Retrieving..." message and did some stuff in Flare, I successfully pushed the changes to the remote repos. At least I assume I did. That dialog always goes by too fast, and I haven't yet discovered any ...

Additionally, many of us like to use a custom medium for PDF output (I call mine "PDF") to make it distinct from the "print" medium. As already pointed out above, the original purpose in CSS of the "print" medium is to control how a browser will render online content when printed. That won't solve ...

As writers, we generally receive feedback when things are wrong, so I just wanted to say thanks to all of you who have helped me the last year.

Transitioning from another (SQL Server based) authoring tool was more challenging than I thought it would be. I last used Flare in 2013 on a writing team ...

That's great advice, Rene, thanks very much.

I'd open the style sheet in a text editor and conduct a search for font-size: to see if I can find anything where the font size is larger than expected. Be on the lookout for percentages, ems, and other relative sizing as well as an explicit font size.

Brilliant! I found this:

span.ChapAutoNum ...

I came to the office ridiculously early today to make headway on a deadline. When I tried to open my project, The "Retrieving source control status" window processed for around 25 minutes until I finally just closed it.

Has anyone else seen this behavior? Its the first time I have seen it since ...

I somehow missed that distinction. So when I edited the frames in my page layouts and created new styles, I should have used the default medium. Which is probably why my styles didn't appear when I needed them.

I forgot to add another thing I tried.

In my default medium, I filtered on List Styles, opened the List element and changed:

list-image-style from pointing to Images\Bullet1.png to none
list-style-type from default to disc

I saved the CSS, ran a preview of a topic that has chevon bullets, and ...

Frustrated with my own limitations, that is.

The Flare interface offers a round bullet style on the Home ribbon / Paragraph panel, except it isn't. When I select it, the green double chevrons display on output.

The source points to
ul
{
list-style-image: url('../Images/Bullet1.png');
}

But ...