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DurtyMat

! couple of weeks?!?!?! i am hoping to get into triple digits over here and you are working on 5?!??! better start trolling madcap forums more often....

DurtyMat

i will be impressed when it is OVER 9000!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?

just kidding, that is quite the accomplishment. thanks for all of the help you provide to the forums

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DurtyMat

My work machine:

P4 1.7GHz
18gig HD (prolly 5400 rpm)
1gb SDRAM (i didnt even know they still made this stuff)
single monitor
Home Rig:

Core2Duo 2.66GHz
320gig HD 7200 rpm
2gb DDR2 800 ram
dual monitor

build times on my work computer are easily 5 times longer then projects built on my home rig ...

DurtyMat

turns out you can condition the drop down tag out. try this code sometime:

<body>
<h2>peace up a town down</h2>
<p> </p>
<MadCap:dropDown>
<MadCap:dropDownHead>
<MadCap:dropDownHotspot MadCap:conditions="Default.ScreenOnly">(This is the Drop-down Hotspot)</MadCap:dropDownHotspot>
</MadCap ...

DurtyMat

oh em gee

this is pretty sweet. thanks for this tid bit o' info it does exactly what i needed ... er ... team needed

DurtyMat

i apparently missed this:

If so, what I would do is, instead of using a dropdown use a Toggler. Togglers work virtually identically to dropdowns, with the exception that the tags don't enclose the content. Instead, you name a tag (like the p tag that the image is included in) then tell the ...

DurtyMat

i just don't want the drop down hotspot text to not display i want the actual contents of the drop down to be displayed however.

my team is debating about using drop downs for the images in our help systems, but considering we use the same content for our printed docs we don't want, image/screen ...

DurtyMat

is there a way to remove the drop down section of a drop-down hotspot but still include the contents of the drop down?

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example:

Screen Shot <- drp down hotspot
<img>panda bear </img>
piccaption
<end of drp dwn>

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i tried to condition out the drp ...

DurtyMat

Morning,

I was curious if there was a way to assign a value to say, three different li. styles so that when they were in a list they would have different numerical values (see example for clarification, because that sentence is terrible)

Example
1. numberedlist
2. numberedlist
bulleted list item
1 ...

DurtyMat

yea, i have been working on our CSS a bunch and have created some very interesting styles for our online help but because we are limited to B&W printed (possibly color docs as a PDF) the styles get a little boring in our word docs. Some of the styles that get brought over look great, list styles ...

DurtyMat

I have been working on a condensed CSS based on my companies current word template and I was curious if anyone has gone from using a word created template to just using the styles that the CSS adds to your created printed output.

it seems like it would be easier to maintain just 1 style sheet ...

DurtyMat

I am having the same issue with my xref style in print outputs.

DurtyMat

wtb: the work-around for this bad boy

would some teammates of mine who have to publish to .chm files

DurtyMat

thanks dan for the reply, anyone have any ideas how to get the hanging indent to work? the team just got on my back about trying to get these silly note/danger/warning gimmicks to work in word outputs.

thanks in advance.

ps - glad the OP got his to work :P

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn ...

DurtyMat

well, it has been a while, so i will do my best to catch everyone up to where we are:

for one, we scooped up: fckeditor, http://www.fckeditor.com (hopefully madcap doesnt mind the link) this provides the user with a familiar word processor interface to create their UDC with.

then we began ...

DurtyMat

a flare roadshow would be pretty sweet....as long as it made a stop in florida ;)

if you really pulled off a flare roadshow, you could probably setup small workshops that catered to different users, from first time flare users to users that want to see what kind of scripts different organizations ...

DurtyMat

Well, I just got the e-mail notification that MadCamp is going to be held in beautiful La Jolla, Cali July 28th - 31st and it got me thinking (never a good thing) but what if MadCap provided something similar to MadCamp for Flare users who already received the Basic/Intermediate and Advanced ...

DurtyMat

what if you need a hanging indent on the next line of the note? thats why i did the image gimmick....BUT, we really need a solid note/example/dange will robinson/tip for our print/web output ....

this thread is making me feel like a /sadpanda

but here:

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn ...

DurtyMat

i just created a quick word output with my "note" solution and they didnt appear...i guess you could put "Note:" as a conditional snippet inside of the note and have it display in printed documentation only BUT that might be an extra step that was probably trying to be avoided by the OP....

ho hum ...

DurtyMat

i did something a little different for this one, when i ran into the same problem (actually i was on another support issue and decided to throw this in) i created an image of "NOTE: " and put it in the background-image tag followed by setting the "repeat" to none then padded the text from the left ...

DurtyMat

sorry for the delay, BUT, it looks like we have a solution to the "problem" as we fine tune some of the aspects of the UDC I will bring some release notes and possibly some of the code that we used to integrate it into our help system. i will say it got my programmer very interested in the kind of ...

DurtyMat

well the basic idea behind this came from this:

a client reviewed our help system and was very pleased with the information and layout of the help system and said that it looked like something that would be very helpful to her and her techs (thats always a plus ;)) but it didn't look like it would ...

DurtyMat

aside from the impending legal issues :D couldn't i code a topic to create a list based on a database, aka pull the name value from the database to generate the list content without having to regenerate the help system on a consistent basis? and couldnt i have the link(s) generated from the name ...

DurtyMat

Before I start, I know I created a thread about something similar to this, but I wanted to just get some more information about the possibility of adding user defined content to a htmlhelp or webhelp appication. I am pretty comfortable in most situations that require getting knees deep in code, and ...

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