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A few things I learned recently while trying to do something similar:

- Flare's build events start in the directory from which Flare was launched (Desktop, if you launched Flare from a shortcut there; the folder where your .flprj is, if you launched Flare by double-clicking the project file; etc ...

Yes, I see the same problem in the output from my existing projects rebuilt with Flare 2022. And, as previously noted, in Flare's own online help.

Here's what my team has done to run Flare in Windows on ARM on an M1 Mac:

1. Install Windows on ARM in Parallels: https://kb.parallels.com/125375 .
2. In Windows, download and install the latest Visual C++ Redistributable runtime libraries for ARM64: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows ...

bunnycat wrote: However, I feel it is still lacking in some language support. Common ones are there, but it feels like it's missing things like JSON and command line.

For JSON, choose Javascript as the language. Then it appears to format correctly.

Oh, yes! Thanks for pointing that out. We shouldn't have been using <MadCap:Variable> in JavaScript anyway. So it's only when using <MadCap:variable name="Variables.Something" /> that the variable in the output is within a <span> tag starting in 2020 r2. If you use the [%=Variables.Something%] form ...

We're using Flare variables in JavaScript on our master page. Now that Flare output wraps variables with a <span> tag, we'll have to find a workaround.

We tried using a snippet instead of a variable, but Flare doesn't seem to evaluate snippets inside of <script> tags. Adding JavaScript to extract ...