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I use hyperlinks when I am embedding a link within a paragraph by linking a word to a specific topic of interest.
I use cross references when the link and the title of the topic it is referring needs to stand on its own. Usually a cross-reference can sit comfortably on its own line or in a bullet ...

who knows may be in a future Web 3.- collaborative edition of Flare, am sure the compiler could be coaxed via scripts.

So an affordance is sort of a function, then.
It's not a function, at least, not in all senses, but that's probably a close enough definition for many uses of "affordance," especially outside of academia. An affordance is not so much a function, but a *use* that something offers, and I don't mean ...

IMHO tools used to create marketing brochures and the like are better suited to this type of deliverable - with strengths in page layout and graphics rather than styles and consistency. I am using CorelDraw for ours.


Agree with everything said earlier.
Interesting indeed!
I just do it in Word ...

Reviewing printed documents in paper provides many affordances.
What is your review workflow like?

Currently, we have a complex single-sourced document. It is used and customized for multiple product lines, system specs and server/client editions. So its like a 3 way single-sourcing project ...

get a full regular expression tool.

do a project backup.

on the website,
Get the following tool
http://www.regular-expressions.info/regexbuddy.html


See how to Grab HTML tags.

http://www.regular-expressions.info/examples.html

i've done this before. and I've hit the same wall with the built in ...

Glad i could shine a bit of light on anyone's day.

Here's a tip,
set a page-break-inside:avoid
to a div.
for print
If you want to keep a section of text comprising more than two paragraphs together
sometimes its good to enclose it in a div.
This div.section you can set the
page-break-inside: avoid

basically this will give tells Flare's layout ...

Greg - thanks for your timely response. It turned out my running heading (#1) wasn't working because of a paragraph mark that made the area larger than the header size defined in the page layout. Instead of displaying some of it, nothing displayed. It took the support person who helped me a while ...

i am posting a request for this. And i think it won't help to add your voices to this.
To be a robust screencapturing program that Capture is aiming for I think they should be able to meet this requirement if enough notice this.

If you have Capture 5, you can use the batch processing picture to apply a standard callout and text box effect i think.

In earlier versions, the one i use is v4, you'll have to open each image and select the use Default Style or something along those lines. You don't have to change each callout ...

Ah, that's where it was hiding! Perhaps they should make that a bit more visible :D ... I like my arrows a bit more restrained!

Yes, it should be a bit more English-like in a restrained kind of way, isnt' it? :)

Haha!!! Seriously, I do agree with you wholeheartedly on more minimalist captions ...

can you post a screenshot what this is referring to in the drop down

margaret it sounds like a case for the Madcap dev team. Even if Flare already has other nice outputs, i think its really good that you are exporting to DITA and working with that. No point going to Flare 6 or 7 if the DITA export is not clean enough yet. Am sure everyone and the mad team would ...

Looks like its HATT specific and not general enterprise XML editors like JUST Systems and ArborText and all that.

Do you open the images in any other program for editing/post production, etc.?

yes Andrew is right.

in any case, if they aren't editable anymore, even with the props file, am afraid there's nothing much else you can do, since it appears the props file and the associated image file are either ...

Thanks - yes I can use Analyzer to give me a list of files that contain my variable. It's not quite what I wanted, but OK.

I've submitted a feature request something along these lines with the ability to export the results to a text file or to a report in the past. perhaps you could add your ...

At one point, sometimes i get a System Memory out of error exception. Its rare, usually happens i've been building projects repeatedly. I restarted my PC,memory issue resolved and all was fine. The PC i am using is not exactly super new, about 4 years old.

This is not a plug, but have you tried MadCap Analyzer. There is a specific feature in there to do exactly what you want automatically.

Hi!
There is a new DITA 101 book by Ann Rockley. get the ebook version, the budget is about right in this economic condition for under 10USD for a 150++ page book.

Looking at the bug fix list for Flare 5
i think the madcap team really have put in a lot of effort into the release in terms of bug fixes..

http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/default_Left.htm#CSHID=GEN1023F|StartTopic=Content%2FFlare%2FGeneral%2FGEN1023F_FlareV5_ReleaseNotes.htm|SkinName=MadCap-Skin


i ...

it looks like this is now in Capture 5

awww....RamonS going soft on us... :lol:
Very insightful business and industry commentary. All very well put. from everyone else.

I am bit disappointed in v5.0 of Flare that so much effort has gone into DITA support. I realize DITA is important but personally I can live without it for the moment ...

We use TFS here.