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This is a follow-on to my post "Auto-number margin problems for short vs long numbers, PDFs" ( https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=33711 )

I'm experimenting with various ways of positioning heading auto-numbers to find the one that works best when the autonumber at any given ...

Thanks, Rob

That worked fine. I had to tweak it a little because I'm allowing nested lists and I only want the first para of the first list item of the top level list to be selected, but that was easy enough.

To make it easier to see what effect the CSS was having, I changed the style 'payload' to ...

I've found that li > p:first-child selects the first para in all list items, as I'd expect.

Then I tried li:first-child > p , expecting it to select all paras in the first list item. It doesn't. Is there some CSS syntax rule that means the pseudo-class :first-child can only be used with the last ...

I want to style the first paragraph of the first list item in my unordered lists.

I've tried various complex selectors and combinations but nothing works.

Why won't ul li:first-of-type p:first-of-type { MY STYLING HERE; } work?

Or ul li:first-child p:first-child { MY STYLING HERE; } ?


P.S. this ...

My print output style for product notes applies auto-numbering to h2 and h3 headings. h2 is numbered 1, 2, 3... etc. and h3 is numbered n.1, n.2, n.3... etc. (where n is the h2 number).

I've written the CSS and the output looks just fine until the h2 or h3 numbers reach 10. Then the extra digit ...

P.S. Is it possible to link a stylesheet to only PART of a TOC? If so, might it be possible to have the 1, 2, 3 numbered h1 rule in the main stylesheet but have it overridden by an Appendix A, Appendix B, Appendix C numbered h1 in another stylesheet that only applies to the appendices part of the TOC.

I'm creating product user manuals as PDFs. I want to number the h1 headings 1,2,3 in the main body but Appendix A, Appendix B, Appendix C in the appendices. I've seen loads of posts on this forum on how to do this but neither of the two main solutions suggested meet all my needs. Is there an ...

Thanks, Dave and Doloremipsum

I'll give that a go.

One potential problem is that the diagnostic help information is presented as tables in the user manual and diagnostic manual. Simply outputting that as an additional clean HTML target means I'd have to make sure the table is laid out in a way ...

If I write an error code guide in Flare (for publishing as a PDF) can I also get Flare to compile the text from the error codes table in that guide and output it as a tagged text or customised xml file that the software engineer can import into his project to ensure the text remains consistent ...

I want to single-source error message and corrective actions text for some industrial equipment to ensure they appear identically in:
1. The user manual (PDF)
2. The diagnostics manual (PDF)
3. Online help
4. The on-screen text file (probably xml) which will be given to a software engineer to ...