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You can have a stylesheet on project level, on target level and on topic level.
If you have a stylesheet on project level you CANNOT assign a stylesheet to topics.
If you have a stylesheet on target level you CAN assign a stylesheet to topics - preferably only to those 5% that differ. To do that via ...

For PDF you would need a different TOC, true.
But you don't want breadcrumbs in a PDF, right? And no auto-sync either ...

And concerning size of windows: I'm a fan of leaving it to the user instead of using a fixed size all the time. Means that the user will care for his settings himself.
And ...

It's empty in Windows, yes. But I opened it with 7zip and found an ASCII file with this content: Whatever that means ...

Bear in mind the breadcrumbs just reflect your TOC structure; so if you want the 'home' topic to be at the root of your breadcrumbs, just put it as a book topic at the root of your TOC.
I thought of doing that, but having a "Home" book at the root with nothing else looked kind of ridiculous. That ...

With the Home ribbon displayed, select the entire span (double-click for a single word). The class displays in the Style menu of the Styles section.
Well ... two things to say:
1.
You don't need Flare 8, you can also see that in Flare 7 and I think even in Flare 6. - Just select the span and ...

The root of that is almost philosophical, because it goes back to the difference between serial content and hypertext content.
As I stated every now and then before: I'm not a friend of mixing things up.

Hypertext content should be "self-sufficient", means: Each topic should give you a portion of ...

You could try adding that link to the masterpage, insert it before the breadcrumb proxy, make it look like the breadcrumb links if you want to and set its "float" to "left".

Hi folks,

I just created an index for my HTML Help. I notice that, whenever there is more than one topic for an index entry, they are sorted alphabetically ... that's pretty crappy.
Do I have a chance to change that order myself?
Does that change in other output formats, e.g. Webhelp?
Is it ...

aha! Wow. Sure?
This looks like there are multiple classes applied to the same "thingy". Could be MC did that for reasons of migration from older stylesheet and/or Flare versions ... smart move, that.

In case of the dropdownhotspot it's three of them:
- MCDropDownHotSpot
- dropDownHotspot ...

Next week sorry.

If I create a toggler, the source code of the link to click on looks like this:
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="FMCToggler( this ); return false;" class="MCToggler_0" MadCap:targets="a">
There you have the FMCToggler function (obviously one from MadCap) and the reason why it doesn't work ...

You're using the same masterpage for them too.

You need to use a differnet masterpage without header and footer for the popups:
- You generate a class for the html tag (e.g.: html.popup)
- You assign a different masterpage to that class (can't remember how it's called - switch to alphabetical order ...

However, our other version (which uses the same output/TOC/header file/alias file) does not seem to cooperate with the F1 help...but the output (CHM file) is fine. Maybe it's something the developers need to look at? Or maybe your right-on the $...?

Well ... I didn't understand that you use the ...

i-tietz wrote:Well then the news is bad: The TOC is handmade by the tech writer.

That "tech writer" is YOU.

i-tietz wrote:Then you can fix it by connecting the correct topic top the respective TOC entry.

Translated for you: Get those old projects and correct the TOC.

I'm not sure what you can/can't do with the SDK; but in this case, I thought they don't want to build an application in the first place.
I know that colinn probably won't use DOTnet, but I cannot leave a statement uncommented which might be wrong ... but I cannot find the SDK anymore - so I ...

Really? Didn't know - sorry about that.

Do you really just want to change the body?
Then dump the masterpage and generate a class for the body in the normal stylesheet: body.margin10 { margin: 10px; } You can assign that class to the body in those topics ...


If you need more than just the body ...

Dave Lee wrote:- DotNetHelp is not server-based help, you'd need WebHelp or HTML5 help.
- The help viewer uses accordions, but you can't design your own skin. It also has MadCap branding.

Does it? I remember seeing a Software Development Kit (SDK) to adapt it ... was it in the knowledge base ?

... when we open a CHM file and click on a topic in the Contents section ...
Contents section? I suppose you mean the TOC?

Well then the news is bad: The TOC is handmade by the tech writer. Those versions must contain wrong links.
I suppose you have access to old versions of the Flare project, i ...

So, you want to know what it was that solved your problem? :?

We need to know a "tiny bit" more:

What do you mean by "topics opening other help windows"?
Do you mean when opening those topics by a ink in another topic? Or are the links in the TOC or in the index?
If it's links in topics: Could ...

The topic is there only once. How is the browser supposed to know in which context you opened it?

And even if the context will be included one day (https://www.madcapsoftware.com/feedback/bugs.aspx): What if the topic is opened via index or search? What's the context then?

SO:
Use three different ...

... but my thinking is that it would be a logical step to provide web-based help in some sort of Help Viewer. Every other help has some sort of viewer, why not WebHelp?
Well - it has: it's called "browser". Its charm is that 99,9% (that's my guess) of PCs have one installed. But sometimes you have ...

Do not look at the topic via tag view, but in text mode. I bet you'll find something like this:
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
xxx
</table>
Text which is not in the "right place" is not displayed in tag view or the XML editor.

I wouldn't enter the misspelled ones. For the very simple reason of how the index works:
The user starts entering a string and with every letter the index moves further down to fit the string, means: Your users will find the keyword with its correct spelling before they reach the "e" at the end of ...

Seems easy enough, but the catch is, our users want to be able to just click a link and have the book print out, not open in their PDF reader.
Your users are probably used to HTML Help - it's possible there. But that print doesn't really look pretty because it uses default browser settings and not ...

You can adjust the margins and paddings and line-heights if the paragraph is inside a table cell - just generate a complex selector in the stylesheet: