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Two questions regarding drop-down text:

1. Can I cross reference directly to these? I don't see it when I try to, and am wondering about having to insert a bookmark in order to cross reference to a drop-down.

2. Context Sensitive help: can I link directly to a drop-down, and have it expand ...

Well the joke is on me, thinking I'd be able to index easily in Flare. I did log a bug just now, because it's getting weirder and weirder. Thanks for the support, Lisa.

Clicking once to insert the cursor on the left of the index entry seems to work to open the index terms in the index pane.

I am referring to a weird thing that happens within the Index Entry pane. For example, Friday was sooo slooow, as I would click under Terms in the term I wanted to edit or add ...

Hi Lisa,

I have both the index pane and the index explorer open. What I would like to do is edit the index entry name in the explorer panel, regardless of the topic I am working in. I am working in an index that was created eons ago, in another incarnation of the product and I'd like to be able to ...

I'd like to be able to edit the text of the index items in the explorer window. How fast and nice that would be as a way of getting rid of the mistakes of the past. Too good to be true?

Tell me if I am missing something.

I have had problems with functionality dropping out of flare, files and ...

I have so done. Linda

Hi, I am indexing.
How do I get a See also? Is there a cross referencing function that I am not seeing?

Thanks
Linda

Nope, doesn't appear to work. Thanks for the help. I will log a bug for this. Linda

Thanks Lisa, I will try this and let you know.

Hi, I recall that in FrameMaker I didn't have to worry about variables breaking at the end of a line. Is there any way to prevent a variable from breaking at the end of a line and wrapping to the next? I have a variable that is the product name, N-central, that is breaking on the hyphen. Thanks. Linda

1. How do I convert a block of text to a table. Word or FrameMaker have menu items for this.

2. Is it possible to copy and paste a table from word into Flare?

Thanks.

td ul li

worked perfectly. Thanks. One down!

I originally did have

td ul in the css (as opposed to td.ul), which didn't show up in the style editor. It also didn't change the font, but perhaps I just don't get it.

Anyway, it's impossible to format cells without using paragraph tags because the td style class doesn't allow for a hard return ...

I now assume I just have to format each bullet manually, generate and see what happens. The next question is what will happen when it gets translated. Argh!

Hi Kevin, the font is returning in Verdana and 12 pt, just like the bullet would if it wasn't in a table cell. The only change is the indent. I use pt only, so I didn't think a complex selector was required.

Thanks Kevin. here's what I have in my css:

td.ul
{
margin-left: 2in;
font-family: Verdana;
font-size: 8pt;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
}

I want the font size to be 8pt.
I see nothing changing except the margin moves around. I also can get this item to appear in my style sheet ...

Totally. I completely agree. I am relieved by the whining, I am glad it's not just me.

That's interesting. Thanks. I'd like to be able to select the text that I want to select. Select, copy or cut and paste quick as a wink.

It's when I try to copy more than one line in a paragraph, all of a sudden the heading above and tables and everything but the text I am selecting is highlighted ...

Yes, generating is a treat. And we can customize our output much better than before.

Our first major release is coming up. We've been carrying two methods of hosting our documentation for the past 6 months (someone forced us to host all our online help through SharePoint, don't ever let this ...

That worked Kevin, doh. Thanks. Now how do I get it to be 8pts?

Lisa was kind and told me nicely how to get to the next line without pressing enter (pressing shift + enter).

Thanks all.

wicked squirrelly!! Yes yes yes.

I am spending all my time figuring out how to do such simple things like have a nice-looking table, and in the midst of it all still having to cope with the wicked squirrelly-ness of the XML editor. I am a writer, and I'd like to spend my time researching and ...

Hi, I have two issues:

1. do you mean the main style sheet or the table style sheet?
2. how do I get more text in a table cell without pressing enter to get to a new line? Each time I press enter, it reformats eveything to paragraph tags and I have to go into an html editor to remove them, for ...

Thank you for your patience Lisa, I appreciate it. I have been reading up on css and html and following up on other things you have posted. I will try this right now, since we need to solve this problem.

am following up with http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_examples.asp, a link you posted a ...

Thanks Lisa. What do you mean by a complex selector?

There is something I am missing here, just exactly how to create a td.bullet style, that will just be adjusted by padding etc when I apply a table style, but won't get overwritten.

I am using non-proportionate font sizes anyway, so should be ...

Thanks Dave. The paragraph style tags were what we had originally when we brought everything over from FrameMaker.

We are trying to avoid using paragraph tags which requires individually formatting each table.