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Thanks again, Lisa, for all your help. My styles are straightened out now. And sorry I got your name wrong above.

I backed up a copy of the style sheet and apparently what I had open in Flare was the older version. Am trying now with your styles.

I added your simple styles from above to my style sheet, but the styles are not showing up as classes of p. I thought pasting them in and saving everything would cause them to show up. What causes that to happen?

I have a deadline fast upon me to get this working, and no support in house to nail styles down. I may have to contact Support for help on this and not use any more bandwidth here.

One thing I see is that the multiline indents don't match. I copied these styles over from my alpha styles and made some mods, but this could be the cause of my indent problem.

It is working, sort of. I applied the span style as you showed in the previous post, and so far have made no adjustments for width, etc.

With no modifications, the numbers are certainly aligned the way I want, but this weird thing happens where subsequent steps are indented for no reason. If I add ...

Thanks, Lynn. I will try this with my project. I am sure it will work, but I will report back : )

I am not sure I follow you with span tags and referring to them in autonumber format. Yes, I have added classes to p tags for bullet, bullet indent, alpha 1, alpha next, etc.

My alpha1 format is {a=1}.

So how would I add a span tag to that expression?

Folks, I am trying to finish a style sheet and am under the gun, so hopefully I am clear with my question.

I am using special styles for numbered lists, not the built in <ol> and <ul> tags. Here is my problem:

We often have procedures that go into double digits. But when you get to two digits, all ...

In my project, I have created a style called h1.chapter_title.

In Running H/F, I modified the Running H/F 7 variable to: <$paratext[h1.chapter_title]>

This variable was then added to my headers on L/R pages for the Chapter page layout.

My documentation target is PDF.

In the topics and in the ...

Hi, Here is an update on my issue. There was a problem with the .swf file, which I downloaded from YouTube. I had someone else try it, and they had the same problem as me. This person, Scott DeLoach, sent me a sample .swf file and it worked fine. So for whatever reason, the content had some problems ...

The primary target was set to PDF. I changed it to WebHelp, built the primary WebHelp target, and then went back to the topic. The preview worked this time.

Thanks.

These topics are in projects where a primary target has already been set. I cannot view the individual topics in the output preview within the topic. But I will double check tomorrow when I am on my work laptop. Thanks.

Within a topic, when I click the "Preview of Primary Target" button, the Preview window pops up, but it is always blank.

Did some searching around the forums but could not find this issue.

Am running Flare 8 on 64-bit Windows 7 Pro.

Elizabeth Klisiewicz

Cannot get the .swf file to work with anything else either.

Would like to hear others' experiences with this.

This is solved! Found the solution deep inside Flare's help system.

I am running Flare 8.<latest build> on a Windows 7 Pro 64-bit machine.

After building WebHelp, first it told me I needed to install IIS. So I did that.

Then it told me .ASP Net was not registered with IIS per the attached screen capture.

.ASP Net.png

How do I fix this? Never saw this problem ...

Hello, I am experimenting with multimedia in different outputs. I added a .swf file to my project and then generated an HTML5 target. The black box for the video appears, but all it does is say, "Loading"... and the video never plays.

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Elizabeth K.

As to why figure and table numbers were appearing in online help: that is the way it was always done. There was only one writer on site with little or no time to produce proper context sensitive help. The Frame files were dumped "as is" into WW 2003.

I do not agree with this workflow, and I don't ...

OK, I edited the style sheet in Notepad++ and changed the series to double quotes. I also changed my Xrefs to {paratext}. It looks like it worked. I will take a closer look at my project tomorrow. I don't think anyone really cares if the numbers are not there, provided they can link correctly.

Many ...

Flare does not let me enter a double quote for the autonumber format, so I will have to set this in a text editor.

Hi Lisa, I see you have helped a lot of people on these forums, and I appreciate your response. Unfortunately, I do not completely follow what you are saying.

Let me clarify:

- We are only producing WebHelp out of Flare, after importing what is essentially a data dump from FrameMaker. Because we ...

Hello, I have inherited a workflow that forces me to retain figure and table numbers throughout my project, even though I am producing WebHelp.

My numbering only works within a topic, not across the entire project. It always resets to 1 in a new topic. Therefore, I have changed my auto number ...

Did you receive an answer to this? I am having the same exact problem, and I am so frustrated by it that I am ready to phone my problem in. I have spent countless hours trying to scrub my formats, and I still get tags appearing. I tried fixing the cross references in the style sheet, and I tried ...

Are you available to answer TOC questions? Assuming you are, I will post my questions here.

Specifically, I open my .ditamap file and import my DITA project into Flare using all the default settings. at that point, I do not tweak any styles.

Once the import is done, I double click on the TOC file ...