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In a scientific approach maybe my right question to challenge you would be:
Try to produce such a phenomenon like my screenshot above shows in less than 30 seconds with one of your standard workflows only using Flare & Capture.

Well, thanks for all of your tips but I can assure since we are/were newbies, no such extraordinary circumstances apply.
And that is exactly one thing that in retrospect keeps a newbie away. But I am also aware that I am a constant victim of Murphy's Law and no one else ever experiences what I do

For now, also being inspired by speakers from MadWorld Prague, I will stick to my alternative solution where I manage abbreviations via an Excel sheet that easily let's me generate snippets and lists of abbreviations by my macro. And I do think that this approach presents a much clearer overview ...

As I have learned by now from the experts, *exclusion* is the key rather than explicit inclusion:
In our use case we cannot add one new entry and simply specify to include this in one target (by selecting one condition with "include") but we have to do it vice versa and select a whole bunch of ...

Some visitors I met at MadWorld have confirmed that they also experience sporadic crashes. There once was a situation when the crash happened always at the same event (I think it was just saving) and back then we reset the installation to resolve this. But after that, still we experienced sporadic ...

We are starting right now with an attempt to manage at least two close release versions (that formally require their own documentation set) within one Flare project by a "lazy split" strategy based on sub-folders and splitting a Flare resource only when it becomes necessary. This should also work in ...

Thanks for your tips. I use a table now as suggested. It seems much easier to control indeed (in particular in this context of the footer frame).

Of course. This was the starting point of this post ( - :

We have table styles,

Thanks for your reply, but no, this is not the case. It happens with many screenshots of a "simple nature".

Follow-up thought:
Is anyone of you a heavy power user of MadCap Capture? For us it keeps crashing regularly and we do not consider it as a reliable tool. If this phenomenon is not common ...

@tomdocs:
When I was doing my careful research, every modern source told me that DIV is the new way, and table is the old one

What do you have for top margin and padding on your divs? Do either of the divs you showed us code for also include top margin or padding values?
What do you mean with "also include"? The world outside of the brackets is a mysterious one being influenced by complex inheritance rules, I suppose ...

I use two DIVs in a page layout to present left-floating information in a footer together with a right floating page number:

<xhtml:div xhtml:class="fusszeile_content">lots of stuff here with variables which may break into a second line</xhtml:div>
<xhtml:div xhtml:class="fusszeile_pagenum ...

Although I do not understand the root cause of this issue, at least I have found a workaround to quickly resolve this (on a per item basis):
If I open the image directly in Flare, there is an option "Regenerate Captured Image", which resolves the issue.
(Only applicable for some images which have ...

Nita,
The issue with undesired images also occurs every now and then when I publish an edited source as PDF. In this scenario the image unexpectedly is fitted with an undesired hyperlink to itself. I currently assume that this is caused in some cases when I drag and drop an image into the XML editor ...

Thank you for the tips.

The trouble is that I do not understand where "p.TabelleHeadline1" originates from. This is not defined in any style sheet and grepping for the keyword "Headline" through the complete Flare project (with all of its files including CSS and htm) shows that this keyword only ...

Can I cross-reference a target-variable from another target X in target Y?
Can I cross-reference a variable from one specific target in a snippet?

Rationale:
We have many documents (PDF/print) each with its individual document version. We set the version in a variable for each target so this can be ...

I am struggling with the conceptualization of conditions in combination with the glossary for print output (using MadCap Flare v2017 r3).

Is it possible to have one central glossary where different targets (via their dedicated glossary proxies) pick only some entries from?

I can see that it is ...

Who can explain the auto column width heuristic? It is not satisfactory to me.
The screenshots show one disgusting example that I do not understand. Is there any kind of "neural network parameter" to apply for optimization?

One simple trick I learned is to pick the column with the content of the ...

We have table styles, where the header row alignment is set to Left but the ultimate result is still justified, which I cannot explain.
There is some "p.TabelleHeadline1" style involved whose origin I cannot really judge.

Which CSS families are fighting their battles here?

We use MadCap Flare 2017 r3 and have observed a strange encoding issue that we cannot explain, which disrupts some of our headlines in the .htm sources managed by Flare:

Unexpected garbled characters or strings appeared as prefixes in some headlines all of a sudden. This only happened in sources ...

We use the default MadCap styles for footnotes (<MadCap:footnote> <MadCap:footnotesBlock>).
Can this style be set up to override any outer style setting that embeds the footnote?

In certain "standard" situations it may well be possible to just set the matching style or a local formatting on the ...

Found answer:
This is the default behavior, which is not related directly to source control. It can be changed by an advanced target option to embed images in Word output.
(I still do not understand why the page layouts need to be published in the default case...)

We use Subversion (based on TortoiseSVN 1.9.4) with MadCap Flare 2017 r3.
We have defined a dedicated target and destination for publishing the output type MS Word based on a dedicated Master Page Layout for MS Word.

For no obvious reason the outcome of the publish process contains resources that ...

Current solution: Added selector "a.hyperlink" with corresponding formatting.

We intend to use two different kinds of formatting for hyperlinks/cross-references in print output:
(a) Hyperlinks to external sites should look like the default: blue with underline
(b) Internal cross-references shall have some different style (with another color and no underline)
We have ...