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Dear Insane,

we are slowly going mad. When we decided to move from MS Word to MadCap Flare about two years ago, we were confident to solve a lot of issues. I must admit that I still prefer Flare to MS Word these days. However, frustration is growing. Too many trivial use case scenarios keep failing ...

Autowidth is not the only issue. Why can't we really fix width, either? I have a lot of tables, where I'd be happy to apply a fixed width as a workaround. But in print, it just does not want to listen to our commands...

Thanks SchokoMuffin for any advice.
Both "rules/statements" do not apply. Check my explanation in a previous reply: I only introduced the strange construction of single lists with continued numbering to avoid the issue which this topic is all about. I can also confirm that the issue applies to all ...

Thanks Nita,
any wild guess is appreciated these days in a Mad World...
No, I don't think it is involved. Even if it was, I would feel like a character in a horror movie because I would not know who ever presssed this button for me

A colleague of mine cannot even activate the "Show changes" checkbox, even if she has opened a topic, and much more functionality is disabled:

Thanks. However, I am afraid to tell you that the suggested solution does not work for me.

Sorry for the misunderstanding again:
The reason in my example for using this strategy of single, separate numbered lists with the mode "continue" actually is just to find a workaround for the issue that this whole topic is about. The issue occurs in normal lists as well. In normal lists I could ...

Thanks for all advice so far and sorry for my frustration. The "div group" that we use was exactly designed as suggested for that purpose:
div.group
{
page-break-inside: avoid;
}

So we already use the suggested techniques without success.

As also implied, we do not want to set a global ...

What is the great mystery behind the simple functionality "Insert Annotation"?

When I read the online documentation carefully, it should be very simple to use. There is no complex workflow described e.g. that I need to activate any special edit mode else beforehand. I don't see any further notes ...

Thanks Nita for any advice. I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
U2

div group was suggested by https://www.helpdesign.eu/
originally to keep captions together with images

Even if I am not a maximus, I doubt by experience that you can set an optimal configuration via CSS.

Whatever the reason is, the only true print rendering system I can witness so far is LaTex.

I will reply right now without further analysis. > Analysis already took so much time.
I introduced something like "avoid" in list items. But the consequence was inacceptable due to some list items which took too much space on a page.
Even if I "should not need to" do like I did, this does not ...

I am about to capitulate. Why are there so many issues with page breaks in printed layout and why does it take a lifetime to study to still not be able to understand the complexity...

I try everything to keep some numbered item together with its belonging picture and caption:
using one list for ...

Found a solution for anyone interested:

li a:focus, a.xref:focus, input.search-field:focus, button.button.needs-pie:focus {
box-shadow: 0 0 10px #e20074;
}

Have fun!

I guess that this should also work with the side navigation but we don't have a master page. So is there an equivalent place where else to put this kind of script?
I don't see where else to set a static browser tab title in the skin settings.

We started with Flare 2018 and PDF output only, where ...

To fulfill accessibility requirements in HTML5 output we need to highlight a menu item, when a user browses through the side navigation by the tab key. In the Side Navigation Skin you can specify a " Search Result Link ( focus ) " style which achieves what we need for search results but there is no ...

Good to know that this was helpful.
Just one more note: This works well with left-alignment but in case of justified style other issues arise

My colleague has recently experienced lots of recurring sporadic crashes with MadCap Flare. Eventually it turned out that this happened due to connection errors with a floating license.

I have not experienced any crashes of MadCap Capture in the recent times, probably since the time that our ...

We have experience with project bindings and publishing with SVN (via local Tortoise) and now try just to publish (not to bind the complete project) into a Git repository for the first time. Currently our attempt fails with " Publish failed: Requires both username and password. " but:
I can log in ...

Thank you very much for hinting at the breakpoint settings They indeed show an effect here.

Mainly having experience with print output so far, we now start experimenting with HTML5. I am struggling with some basic behavior in a very simple layout, that I would have expected to be very trivial to solve:

We only have four menu items in the top nav, where the standard responsive behavior is ...

Me likes Rob, too

We use MadCap Flare 2018 R1 and create PDF print output where the layout all of a sudden has slightly changed and we cannot see the reason why. We have not upgraded MadCap Flare and neither have we changed our single master stylesheet during the time period in that this layout change occurred:
When ...

I think I was enlightened and it is so simple:

Flare just looks for the bookmark in all topic files that are linked from the TOC of the current target
Since we have just copied the topic file in a split, the bookmark stays the same
By design we never include two topic files that were split in ...

Cross-references could pose an issue in theory and we get many compiler warnings, however, in practice in a generated PDF for us they still work as desired, although we do not have any clue why.
Does anyone understand what is happening inside Flare in a scenario as depicted in the attached ...