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mikejp wrote:But X-Edit Express will, apparently, be ... simple.

From your fingertips to the programmers' ears.

wclass wrote:Save the Word document as HTML and copy/paste the html code.

I don't recommend that one, or if you have to, do it as a last resort -- Word's HTML output has a lot of garbage in it that you'd want to strip out.

Is it not showing up in IE? The before/after/content is apparently browser-specific, but the auto-numbering method is a Flare feature; I don't think it's standard HTML. So Flare is actually dynamically adding the content as if it were regular text, so in the final output, it will be just text.

That ...

I tend not to use underlines if the hyperlink is obvious or indicated in another manner. For instance, a list of news/press releases with or without a bullet, arrow, or other image for the bullet. If they're all grouped together and under a category heading like "News" or "Press Releases" then I ...

How do folks generally feel about using browser detection "if" code?
It's a PITA having to do it, but no real objections to doing it. I'm not sure how you'd incorporate it into Flare, though. First, the WebHelp output is in a frameset, so I'm guessing the browser detection would have to be put ...

SteveS wrote:You need before and after pseudo elements:

I thought it was tied into them somehow, but I couldn't remember how.

...try mc-label in the Unclassified section.
Just tried that and it didn't work. I also tried the "content" property in the unclassified category, and although it worked in the XML Editor, it didn't work in the online output. It's either not supported by the browsers yet or it's a print-only ...

KevinDAmery wrote:1) Develop your source in Flare, then when you need print / PDF output open a COPY of the project in Blaze and make the output.

Unfortunately, and unless I'm mistaken, the output is scrambled in the Blaze beta.

Can you turn off the ribbon, like you can close the task pane in 2k3?

I haven't used MSO2k7 yet because I've heard bad things about it. I'm not too worried about Microsnot stopping support on MSO2k3 anytime soon because there are a lot of government agencies that are still using it. Some of them ...

3) What happens on an end user's computer when the default style sheet is used - do they see what I see? If not, why not? What is the point of setting styles and fonts etc in a style sheet if the user doesn't have those fonts?
You have the same problem if you send someone a PDF from a Word or FM ...

Do you have any problems if you rename a file?

Pohutukawa wrote:The source files are in a synchronized My Documents folder.

What do you mean by a "synchronized" folder?

I've never had problems moving files around in the Content Explorer. Are you using any kind of source control program with Flare?

Would I put the body proxy into a table or something (in the Master page)?
That's an excellent suggestion (although I've never tried it). For online output I'd recommend using <div> tags, but Word doesn't like DIVs much, so the other alternative is to put a table on every topic.

Note that if you ...

In flair are the directories: output, content and Project used.
Ignore the Output directory -- everyone who opens the project and builds it will get their own Output folder.

The Content and Project folders are the ones everyone will need. The Project folder contains project-related information ...

Oh - and for anyone reading this post, I also talked with Scott Deloach, and he told me that if you run WebHelp from a Web server (which we do for some of our help), then you do not need to turn on MOTW. So, this workaround is unnecessary for those people.
And in some cases, having MOTW enabled ...

From what I've read on the web, the MOTW is still supposed to work in IE7 like it did in IE6. Make sure you delete the Output folder before compiling again, and it wouldn't hurt to clear the browser cache and history.

I just tried moving my Docs folder to the root instead of under Resources, and it ...

I found a workaround that works with Flare and the users won't get the warning message. I tested it in IE6 and Firefox and it works. Someone else will have to test in IE7.

Copy the PDF to a location in your project. In the example below, I put it in a folder called "Docs" located in the Resources ...

False for Firefox (which doesn't need MOTW, so it's a moot point). True for Internet Explorer.

If by "after the <head>" you mean you put it between the <head> and </head> tags, then theoretically it should have worked (so long as it was also inside of <script> tags).

However, I don't think you want to do that, since the frame page (and therefore the validation code) is always in the browser ...

If the block of text is always the same, then Analyzer will detect the duplicate text and will recommend it be converted into a snippet which will then replace the regular text. At that point you could edit the snippet and it will filter to all instances of it in the project.

BTW, in Flare, if you ...

Congrats, Steve! And I'm not just saying that because it increases my post count.

This press release mentions some new products coming from MadCap --> http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/LAM00417032008-1.htm . I like the sound of X-Edit and X-Edit Express.

Here's a short excerpt:
Authoring
-- MadCap Blaze -- the new, next-generation authoring solution for ...

You can also add a custom "button" to the toolbar and give it an onClick event that calls your website.

6. Right click on the topic that I want to be the popup, select Properties , and select popups under Topic Style Class. Click ok . This changes the popup topic, when viewed, to one word on each line. (This is right?)
Depends on the dimensions you set, but yes, it'll do that. The XML Editor doesn't ...