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So, responsive layout does actually work in the output if the web browser supports it, but Flare doesn't like it and throws an error. So you can use it fine if you can find a way to ignore or work around the error.

The native Flare way of doing columns like that is Responsive Layouts: https://help ...

For my personal practice, obviously it's nice to be able to find topics in the Content Explorer using good folder/file organisation, but it's not necessary because Flare provides the excellent "Find in Explorer" button. To find a specific topic I'll typically find it in the TOC and jump to it from ...

Hmm, on re-read my suggestion is best for the entire table, but probably can't be narrowed down to specific columns - they're not really proper items with descendants in the HTML. ChoccieMuffin's option might work better for this specific problem!

And don't worry about expressing it as CSS code ...

ChoccieMuffin's response is perfect for someone who is just learning CSS - I have another suggestion for when you're feeling more confident.
If your tables with narrow columns have a specific style class, you can specify that you want any paragraphs (of any type) within that table to use hyphens ...

If the font is correct, possibly you don't have it installed on your PC - make sure you install it for all users, then close and re-open Flare. Hopefully that should cause the style to display the correct characters.

But I am curious, if the translation agency does everything manually every time, since they are not using any tool, don't you get the same questions over and over again?


Late response sorry - but you're actually overestimating how professional our translation agency is. We use Gengo, which is ...

Hmm, I'm a few months late to this post...

If you're importing content from Flare, you could create a conditional tag like "NotForTranslation" and tag those tables. Then when you import the project, exclude that conditional tag from the import.

If you're importing from Word or something else, I ...

If I understand you correctly, you should be able to do this by setting the definitions in the variable file rather than in the target. You can add multiple alternative definitions and then in the target select which one you want to use - that would allow you to select the same definition in ...

Oh brilliant, I ran into this problem recently and threw my hands up after wasting way too much time on it! Great to have a patch for it, thanks everyone!

I don't know anything about Linux really, but have you pulled open the Developer Tools to see what's going on in the webpage? See if there are any red errors popping up, or find the sidenav elements and see whether there's anything that might be making them not appear.

Also, you said you uploaded ...

You're missing a closing </li> :)

<h1>Title</h1>
<h3>To do something</h3>
<ol>
<li>
<p>More text</p>
</li>
</ol>

For future reference, the syntax editor should tell you what line the error is on. But really the main way to avoid this is to work in the Flare UI rather than the HTML editor - no ...

I've had a problem and managed to solve it with the help of Flare technical support, so just logging my notes here for posterity (I've seen a couple of forum posts about this issue but none of them included a proper resolution or cause for the problem).

Problem:
When trying to build a CHM, the ...

You can delete logos from a skin by opening the skin as text, then locating the "Resources" and deleting the ones that are no longer needed. There's a feature that is supposed to delete unused icons when the skin is saved, but I haven't found that very reliable.

I honestly do no know why skins are ...

Flare does have a feature that lets you set what style will be next when you press enter: https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare2022/Content/Flare/Styles/Other-Features-Activities/Regular-Stylesheets/Styles/Setting-Next-Style.htm . It seems you'd have to set it on every block element in your ...

Addendum to the above - possibly this is not a problem for us because of my weird import file/source control setup, which I forgot about when writing the above post. See this forum convo: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=33896&p=145012#p145012

Ok, so I don't know if this is best practice but here's what I've done:

We have a global project and several child projects.
Each child project contains an import file (let's call this Import1). This file's only purpose is to import another import file (Import2) from global.
Import2 contains ...

I don't know anything about this really so just spitballing - I wonder if you can fix the breadcrumb container to a specific height? It looks like the jump is happening while the breadcrumbs are loading in, so maybe if you fixed the container height it could load the breadcrumbs without moving ...

@doloremipsum - Does editing the import file (flimp) in a text editor to change the project path to a relative link work ok for you? I know the import file also stores the path of each individual file as a Source and AbsoluteSource, so do you not have to do any additional steps to manually edit ...

That's a common trap! As you've observed, by default the import file uses an absolute link to a location in your drive instead of a relative link. However, you can easily replace this with a relative link - provided that the Flare projects have the same relative positions on all PCs.

For example ...

Thanks for chiming in @marvin mallari, nice to hear from staff :)
You know what, the slowness in my project has actually cleared up! Seems to be running as normal for me now, so I wonder if there was something local to my PC going on. But in case it's helpful to anyone else, here are the details ...

Oh, yeah that would do it! Honestly I never would have imagined that you were working in the text editor, and as far as I know all of Flare's documentation refers to the XML editor context. Just goes to show that you shouldn't make assumptions about how other people use a piece of software.

You ...

Similarly, my Single Source field is greyed out when I select anything that is not a topic, and is enabled when I put my cursor in the topic.

Another thing to try: Pick any paragraph, right click on the p structure bar at the side and click Create Snippet. Add the snippet in the default location ...

The only thing I can think of is if you clicked somewhere else (e.g. the content explorer or the TOC), then the topic you have open is de-focused and the toolbar will disable anything that can only be inserted in a topic.

Can you try selecting where you want the snippet to be and pressing CTRL + R?

This is certainly something I struggle with as well... For I while I thought that Term Bases in Lingo would be the answer - it seems like the perfect use-case for a list of strings with fixed translations. Unfortunately, the translation service we use doesn't use Lingo (or, um, any professional ...

Good thinking, but I have... 24GB of RAM apparently so that's probably not the issue. My HDD seems to also hit the recommended 7200rpm.

I'm not seeing any issues with Flare except for the slowdown, if that helps!