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Where a topic is included in the TOC more than once, Flare can't know which item to highlight in the output TOC so the first instance is highlighted. The only way I know around this is to put the shared content in a snippet, then embed that snippet into separate topic files. You get the benefit of ...

Yes those were the results I saw too. The \A sequence is the equivalent of adding a <br /> to the line making it:

<p>Main term <br />
See also reference</p>

A <br /> makes the next line have the same indent as the containing <p> tag and I couldn't figure a way of adding a spacer to the start. It's ...

I do love a challenge... The closest I could get is to use the ::before pseudo element to add in a line break before the "See also" span. Being a line break, it normally has the same indent as the element containing it, in this case the p.index1 tag. So you have to fudge some whitespace in there too ...

I can't figure out a way to do what you want either. The closest I can get is to add "display:block;" to the span.SeeAlsoIndex element. This puts the "See also" text on a new line, but also means that the term you are linking to is on its own separate line. These spans (SeeAlsoIndex and ...

All my Lingo issues stem from my company using an agency who were not familiar with Flare, let alone Lingo. They couldn't seem to understand the concept of XML and made the reimportation of translated segments a major problem. After going back and forth several times and getting no better response ...

I've not tried this and this post is from 2014 so the issues reported may no longer apply, but the below post talks about addressing an image using a madcap variable instead of a direct src link.
https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=26687
At the time it didn't show properly in the ...

I'm guessing it's in the Madcap install folder. A quick search of files in C:\Program Files\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare 17\Flare.app\Resources\Schemas on my machine for mc-toc-depth finds a definition of 3 for mc-toc-depth. So unless otherwise overwritten in your CSS, that's what it's going to try ...

Have you tried using the code snippet tool to highlight code? Insert -> Code Snippet and select the appropriate language. SQL is one of those. It will box your code example and handle the colour coding and preservation of indentation. See https://www.madcapsoftware.com/blog/madcap-flare-2020-new ...

So... you'd like something like:

1. Do something
2. Do something else:
CASE[Select a Date Level]
WHEN 'Year' THEN DATENAME('year', [Order Date])
WHEN 'Quarter' THEN DATENAME('quarter', [Order Date])
WHEN 'Month' THEN DATENAME('month', [Order Date])
END
3. Then go make a cup of tea.

My code ...

Hard to tell from the info you've given. There are many ways to format code examples.
What are defined in the classes of DIV and SPAN you've listed? I'm not sure about your reference to LI tags. Is this example nested inside a bulleted list?

A PRE tag will use a fixed width font and preserve spaces ...

The drag and drop in Flare works well I've found, fixing links as it goes. The worst that would happen is when a target gets built you'd get an error stating the page layout was missing. If you get that, update the target to point to the right one and you're golden.

Cheers,

Rob

Just wondering if you are working on a network drive? I used to find slow performance whenever Flare had to build because of the network speed and the framework Flare uses. I changed to working from a local copy and that resolved my speed issues. I don't think network issues are as bad as they used ...

Without seeing what's in your code and css it can be hard to diagnose.

As an alternative (and CSS/Flare is usually full of alternatives), could you change your "example" class to be generic and then be able to apply it either to a paragraph singly or the div as a group? So:
.example {
font colour ...

Without knowing more about your project, it's hard to pinpoint what might cause it... Here's some things off the top of my head:

If your content is split into separate htm files split by heading, there could be page breaks in the FLTOC file. Check the properties on each TOC entry and in the ...

Hi,

What is in the MadCap|xref style in your stylesheet for your print media?

I have two set up as follows:
MadCap|xref
{
mc-format: '{para} on page {page}';
}
MadCap|xref.ParaOnly
{
mc-format: '{para}';
}

And then to use them I just make sure the appropriate class is applied to the xref:
<p ...

Can you link your cross reference to a bookmark on a page instead of a heading? That way the bookmark will be collected by the cross reference and no extra TOC headings. I do that when I want a link to point to something further down a page than the very top.

Cheers,
Rob

I don't think there's a native solution in Flare.

However, that's a neat little Javascript on the Python site. If you look at the source for the page you can see a reference at the bottom of the source to the script https://docs.python.org/3.10/_static/switchers.js. I'd be borrowing the idea and ...

Well... Setting aside the obvious question as to why you'd use a paragraph to represent a bullet in such a convoluted way...

The autonum declaration is trying to put the following before your link:
<span style="color: Black;" class="mcFormatColor"> <span style="font-family: 'Wingdings';" class ...

I'm not sure I understand why you're using OL and LI elements to produce headings. I can see it would create issues because by default lists are nested inside each other and the indents will be as you've demonstrated. Each sub list will be more indented than the parent. You can change that with ...

If that ruler on the top of the page is in cm, the image is appearing to be 80mm width. The column seems to be only just less than 60mm wide so can't display it within the column.
As to why the column isn't 80mm... check the rest of the table column definitions. If a table hasn't all columns with ...

Well you learn a new thing every day! Thanks Dave. I may have to reassess how I do some of my styling now

Rob

You're right in that the HTML/XML that Flare uses for topics doesn't support tab stops.

What do you need to do with tabs?

I've always been able to find alternate ways to simulate tabs and indents. Either using margins or padding, floats, or in cases of producing a form for a PDF, a table with no ...

I suspect it's something to do with the width of your survey content. I find the same whenever I have a div or table that attempts to use 100% width on a page with a menu proxy sidebar floated to the right, the content is placed below the bottom edge of the sidebar. By default block elements will be ...

To highlight the first para of the first list item in an unordered list:

ul li:nth-child(1) p:nth-child(1) { YOUR CODE }

Replacing both nth-child(1) references to first-child didn't work for me.

To highlight all paras of the first list item in an unordered list:

ul li:first-child { YOUR CODE ...

Don't know if this is the 'right' way to do it, but I mark all my UI terms in a span with the class "UIElement". Then advise the TX team to not translate text in those spans. In my CSS they are defined as bold text (making it easy if I decide to change from bold to a colour or something else).

Rob