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Hi Nita, thanks for the help! I used your advice to get the images and captions to stay with their corresponding list item! I added the "page-break-inside: avoid" to my li style, and added all the content that needs to stay together in the li.

I have no idea what this is: "mc-grid-row attribute". I ...

Hi Everyone,

In my guides, I have many ordered lists with images. If a step has an accompanying image, I want to keep that step and the image together. In order to keep these together, I created a "KeepWith" div and set it to Avoid page breaks. This div works, except that step inside the div always ...

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Lisa, I took your advice and created a "KeepWith" div. For the most part, it worked beautifully in the PDF output, except that it caused two issues:

In some cases, all of the content inside of a div would disappear, and a blank page would show up in the PDF.
If there was a lot of content in the ...

Hi devjoe, thanks for the tip! However, setting display:none doesn't keep the headings from showing up in the TOC. It just strips the formatting from those headings in the TOC.

I also submitted a feature request for the ability to cross-reference steps, as in:

1. Do this. If this isn't applicable to you, go straight to "Step 3".
2. Do this.
3. Do this.

MadCap has found creative ways to implement features, so I trust that they can figure out a way to do this!

I'm creating a PDF. I would like the Bookmarks panel to show all h1-h6 headings. However, I want the TOC at the beginning of the guide to only show h1-h2.

Is this possible?

Hi Navz,

If you're starting with a Flare template, the format of the autonumber is span.ChapAutoNum. Screen shot below.

If/When you become comfortable with the internal editor, you can make changes directly to the Stylesheet:


span.ChapAutoNum
{
color: #3e3e3e;
font-family: 'Century Gothic ...

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Hi Navz,

Welcome to the forums! To recap, these are the challenges you're facing:

The phrase "Chapter #" is added to your h1s.
You want autonumbering in PDF h1, but not HTML h1.
You can solve both issues in your Stylesheet.

Remove "Chapter"
1. Open the Stylesheet.
2. Set to Simplified View ...

GeeShpherd, thanks for posting your code and the updates! I was able to copy/paste your updated code and successfully use it in my project. Thank you so much for saving me a lot of time!

For what it's worth, I just submitted a feature request to MadCap, requesting that the PDF output support flexbox.

In the meantime, I am manually managing footnotes, since all of mine are table footnotes (which MadCap also doesn't automatically support), and often have repeated footnotes. I add the # and apply the superscript span. I then have a separate style for the footnote text, and I number the notes myself ...

I just submitted my feature request to MadCap. Hopefully they can add this feature soon; the ability to repeat footnotes would save me so much time!

Looks like this thread has been quiet for 2 years, but I'm bringing it back! I'm facing the same challenge as the original poster. I would like to add table footnotes so that they appear immediately after the table. I contacted MadCap support, and this was the response:

"Currently there is no way ...

Bumping this post; any ideas about how to link conditional text to a profile?

Hi Mike!

Thanks for pointing that out. After playing around with many different options, here's what I got to work:


li
{
margin-top: 6px;
margin-bottom: 6px;
}

ol
{
list-style-position: outside;
list-style-type: decimal;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-right: 0;
margin-top: 4px;
margin-left ...

I'm having the same issue as the first poster. I tried Mike's suggestion to set the bullet image as a background image for the li style. But then, what do you do with numbered lists? The custom bullets will still show up there.

I feel like there should be another way to position the custom bullet ...

Thanks for the tips! Also, I submitted a feature request to MadCap to add rulers and the ability to set line length.

Thanks for the input! I'll see what I can do with variables. I went ahead and put in a feature request as well (thanks for including the link in your signature!).

I am setting up auto-numbering for my chapter numbers. Is there a way to style the numbers as: "01, 02, etc"? When setting up auto-numbering, I see that there are options for roman numerals and letters, but no "01". I could add a "0" to the format text box, but that won't work once I get to 10.

Any ...

Hi,

I think I may be able to help. There are two selectors that define an auto-numbered item:
1. The selector that you say needs a number
2. The Span Class that defines the style of the number.

To fix this:
1. Open the CSS. (I'm using Simplified view.)
2. Open the properties for selector #1.
3 ...

I am transitioning from InDesign to MadCap Flare. I am currently setting up the page layouts for the PDF output. Is there a feature in Flare that is similar to the “Based on Master” setting in InDesign? In InDesign, you select the Based on Master setting if you want the new page to include all the ...

Is there a way to show rulers in Capture? Also, is there a way to set the length for a line in Capture?

I'm just trying to create a line that's a certain length, and I'm surprised that there's no easy way to measure/set that length.

I'm used to working with InDesign and Illustrator, so I'm ...

I am setting up my first profile in Capture 7. I would like the profile to include all of the condition tags that I'm using in my Flare project. Is there a way to link the profile to a Flare project? I know that I can link an image to a project, so it seems like you should be able to do the same for ...