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True, but I have to do this with Word output first, then WebHelp

It appears Flare does not support outputting merged projects to Word format. And this is something I have to do.

Please don't tell me I have to keep RoboHelp around for this.


Unfortunately you won't like the answer. Nope you can ...

As long you use Analyzer to open and analyze your projects at a fairly regular basis, you can create a nice historical log of topic statistics about your projects, such as changes in topic count over time.

Use capture, snagit or just Print Screen to crop and insert the image into your powerpoint ...

One way to keep a tab on statistics, if you can spare the memory, is to
keep Analyzer running in the background as you develop and edit your Flare Project.

Its a good habit to develop. It lets Analyzer update your project statistics daily as you update with your project. When you're done at the ...

The existing line does not support this directly.

However, if you're producing merged webhelp, all you have to do in your 'main' or primary help system is to
Create linked build at runtime TOC entries , and Flare does the rest to integrate it all in your webhelp output.
Robohelps previous way of ...

In your Webhelp output folder, browse to Content\SkinSupport and open MadCapSearch.js in Notepad or your favourite text editor.

Find the following line of code
function ResultTROnmouseover()

In the curly brackets, you will see something like this:

this.style.backgroundColor = "#dddddd";

Replace ...

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The keyboard shortcuts in Word to apply Headings 1,2,3 and Normal
without any macros or customization is

Apply Heading 1
CTRL+ALT+1

Apply Heading 2
CTRL+ALT+2

Apply Heading 3
CTRL+ALT+3

Apply Normal
CTRL+SHIFT+N


To remove Character formatting, similar, to the Reset Class feature is Flare, its ...

I guess Andrew nailed it correctly.

I guess with a commercial standard database versus a proprietary 'CPD' file,
you can actually do a whole lot more with greater efficiency

I like the
- historical stats
and the built-in Variable Suggestions feature
is infinitely worth having than to get teams of writers to learn regular ...

Like Paul,
i use the unused styles feature in Analyzer. its extremely useful to get rid of stylesheet bloat especially after importing projects.

I assume the content of your masterpages are not appearing in both
-online
-print
output types

Have you tried the Application Sample project type and seen how the sample master pages work yet.

Anyway for your online master page,
You need to include at least the Body Proxy.
After that you can type ...

:)

here's a little something that goes against the grain...i thought it rather pertinent to post this at this point...
this must be what they eat and do all day over there ....to be number one :)

"....Be willing to say no to your customers When it comes to feature requests, the customer is not ...

I tried fiddling around with indexProxy with 'print' medium turned on, but i don't think you can at least not in this version of Flare. I also tried double-clicking the IndexProxy in the XML editor. I think you can tweak it for Frame output though.
Perhaps this is something Blaze can do.

If all ...

Are those pictures standalone or are they framed...

thanks! always glad to hear it!

I guess we'll have to get down and dirty for the next few days.

We were previously using Flare to do translation. It was time consuming, We bought lingo and we had these partially translated projects in Flare.
When editing in Lingo how do you start working with partially translated Flare projects. If we were starting completely from scratch for a translation ...

.... I highly recommend the upgrade to XP . It seems that Microsoft got a handle on all the driver and stability issues in XP that exist in Vista....

....Also, Microsoft did a great job in improving XP performance , it is about 1/3rd faster than Vista.


hahah....sounds like a new operating ...

How about creating a new Lingo TM database for each project then? Then import the appropriate TMX for each instance of the database.

I think DITA is as much about adopting a mindset. It is about thinking about your documentation in terms of infinitely reusable, tagged, structured, standardized mini topics instead of books and pages. I am sure there's a good sentence in there somewhere...:)

A book is a collection of topics ...

Found the problem...

Your Translation Memory database must be created in the same drive name as your SQL Server Express installation location. For example if you install SQL Server Express in C, the Lingo TM database must be installed in C not in D.

We use source control to source code only. We try not to put the binaries or compiled help in the source control server. I think the location for this compiled help is usually called the QA drop server. Usually just a file server where developers and everyone else dumps their latest compiled ...

There are some really good posts and discussions that relate to this here..

http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... ce+control

Hmmm...it reoccurred on another test installation

Lingo was unable to create database files at the location you specified, file:///D:/Documents/MadCap Lingo/Translation Memory/

why would that happen?

In Content Explorer, have you tried, selecting the Content folder, right-click, point to Source Control, Project, then click Check In All?