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by forfear
Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:07 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: How to insert Math equations and formulas
Replies: 11
Views: 11265

How to insert Math equations and formulas

Has anyone tried to insert math formulas and math equations in to HTML help topics.

What's the best way to do this, if Flare can't support this natively. Is there a workaround that works?
by forfear
Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:02 pm
Forum: Mimic's General Discussion
Topic: Pat Dear Leads Mimic Product Development
Replies: 12
Views: 9582

Re: Pat Dear Leads Mimic Product Development

With such credentials there's gonna be big expectations on Madcap to deliver on their promise.
Its going to be exciting times i imagine.

i believe this is exciting ground to be treading on. Madcap's got a team that previously came up with sucesses such as robodemo...so it'll be interesting to see ...
by forfear
Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:17 pm
Forum: Tips and Tricks
Topic: 5 Powerful Timesaving Flare Tips You Don't Know About
Replies: 5
Views: 4721

5 Powerful Timesaving Flare Tips You Don't Know About

This isn't published anywhere else but the Madcap Forums.

1. Clear formatting. On the Formatting toolbar, use the UNFORMAT command.
2. XREF. Consider cross-references...not just hyperlinks.
3. Always always try Tools > Update Cross-References.
4. mc-heading is a good friend. Running H/F is ...
by forfear
Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:55 pm
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Print 101 Tips to Get You To Pro Design Status (in v3.1)
Replies: 15
Views: 14340

Re: Print 101 Tips to Get You To Pro Design Status

I completely understand what you mean, but i am glad to say, that so far i think i may have cracked it.


My suggestion. Clear any font-size settings in your li tags. set them to default - which means none..

Body
- li
- p
- td
- th
- h1
- h2

etc..

So in effect, with the cascading effect, if ...
by forfear
Sun Mar 09, 2008 6:09 pm
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Print 101 Tips to Get You To Pro Design Status (in v3.1)
Replies: 15
Views: 14340

Re: Print 101 Tips to Get You To Pro Design Status

Now my documents are finally distributed, now is the time i get a chance to sit back and fix 'bugs' in my stylesheet.

As one of the forum posts in the Flare Styles related forums mention...."It's all quite interesting if you ask me all this discussions about absolute and relative, like a religion ...
by forfear
Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:44 pm
Forum: Flare's General Discussion
Topic: Flare in Action!
Replies: 86
Views: 2433769

Re: Flare in Action!

Sketchup by Google uses Flare !
to generate PDF and Webhelp. Amazing

http://download.sketchup.com/OnlineDoc/ ... suwin.html
by forfear
Sat Mar 08, 2008 12:14 am
Forum: Printed Documentation Targets
Topic: Print 101 Tips to Get You To Pro Design Status (in v3.1)
Replies: 15
Views: 14340

Print 101 Tips to Get You To Pro Design Status (in v3.1)

I have just released our first single-sourced print and HTML help docs into the ecosystem (120 pages, indexed, TOC, cover page, copyrights page). Am very glad to share my best practices after much experimentation and cross referencing the Flare Help System and the Flare printable Getting Started ...