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She definitely did it in that order, because we don't create these note tables from scratch. The writers copy and paste the formatted table (with the td classes assigned) from a set of "canned" examples and then type in the note text. So she would have applied the table class after the fact.

(As a ...

I am positive this used to work, but seems to be broken now in v5 and v6. I have some note tables that have a style class applied to each column (in the source it looks like <td class="noteicon"> and <td class="notebody">.

In some cases, I want to apply an "extraspace" class to the entire table ...

Hi Deborah -

I'm not sure what you're asking--perhaps you had formatting in your post that didn't come through. Do you want your text to be indented underneath your text? If so, you can tweak your stylesheet to make that happen. Maybe you can post a screenshot of what you're trying to achieve.

Bob

It seems then, that the easiest way to implement this is to add an FAQ post to the General Discussion forum for each product and make it sticky. The FAQ topic itself should consist of a series questions with either a brief answer or a link to a topic or KB article.

Some questions, such as the one ...

I'm at WritersUA in Seattle, and I have been promoting this forum to people I've met who are using Flare and struggling with various issues. It occurred to me that one thing this forum lacks is an obvious mechanism for answering FAQs.

Other forums I use have a "sticky" post with FAQs, or links to ...

Dave Lee wrote:In that example, you'd need to search for p class="note" .

Thanks Dave. That was lazy of me. I had Flare open, and should have looked in the source to be sure I got it right.

Bob

Yes, you can do a replace in the source code. In the Find and Replace dialog, put something like class="p.note" in the Find what field and put the replacement style name in the Replace with field.

Then select whole project in the Find In field, and check the box for Find in source code . Then ...

Wow that would be annoying. I don't think Flare allows you to customize keyboard shortcuts, though that would be a nice feature to request (https://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx). There are functions that I would love to associate to my own keystroke combination, the way you can in Word ...

How are you generating the border between the Index heading and the index proxy? Is that a separate paragraph item, or a CSS style? It is also odd to me that the Index heading is right aligned in the incorrect example. Did you look for subtle differences in the source?

BTW, are you generating PDF ...

Wow, what a strange problem! My cover image was "disappearing" from the decoration frame because of a change I made to the stylesheet. (Spot on as always, Lisa!) The short version is that I had added a "background-color:white" rule to the body style, and that was overriding the image in my ...

I have a Page Layout for my cover page that includes a couple of images inside decoration frames. The cover has been working fine for months, but I just noticed that one of my images is not displaying anymore.

In my PDF output and when viewing the Page Layout, the GIF image appears fine, but the ...

Seeing how often questions are asked on the forum about why things don't work as expected in Word, I've been wishing that someone would compile a concise list. If you've got your PDF working the way you like, it would be great if you could post back a list of issues you encounter with Word output ...

Bob, you've achieved more than I've been able to. I can't even get a ToC entry to link to another skin. Every time I create the .CHM file, I get a warning that the selected skin is undefined.

Hi Paul -

Are you using Flare v5? I think Carsten said previously that some part of that functionality ...

It's strange, but I can't find any way to start a <dl> list either from the XML Editor. If it's there, it's quite hidden. Sounds like a bug/feature request to me.

As a workaround, I would create a basic <dl> list in the Internal Text Editor, and then make a snippet out of it. Then you can insert ...

Nobody using an onine HTMLHelp file created by Flare with different skins from C++ code :|



You might be better off starting a new thread with that title. I think the forum is mostly used by people who just write the content, and people who also write code are rare.

I looked around on the ...

"Quick" depends on how good you are with your graphics editor. Changing the accordion colors is easy to do, but changing the icons may take more time.

To change the colors of the accordion items, open the Skin Editor (Project Organizer > Skins) and click on the Styles tab. For each item under ...

I would talk to your print vendor. My guess is that their printer is smart enough to realize which pages need color, and which are "black and white". It then prints the pages that are "black and white" differently to save toner. If every page had some color on it, your pages would look the same, but ...

Hi Carsten -

I tried playing with this and was able to get it to work from within the TOC. I could specify for a particular TOC entry that it should be opened in a different skin, and that worked (using v5 SP1). All of my links in the TOC open using the default skin, but that one TOC entry opens ...

I'm not sure I follow all of your question, but I think you may be confusing the project folder structure with the output folder structure. When you create a new project, Flare creates the folder structure as in your first list. If you need to move a project (or if you're adding a project to source ...

Hi Wil -

I can confirm that it does the same thing for me. If I use Ctrl+3 when the cursor is at the end of a word, it replaces the word with the variable. If you press Ctrl+Z to undo, you can see that it selects the complete word where the cursor is before inserting the variable.

Definitely a ...

I do not have that problem using Flare 5.0.1. I can insert a variable immediately after the word with no ill effects (the variable is inserted with no space between the it and the preceding word). In fact, I can insert a variable in the middle of a word with no problem.

Does it behave the same for ...

I'm not clear what you need to do. How you merge is going to be driven by what you need to merge. What things might be different? You mention the FLPRJ file, but does that mean you need to merge the Project properties?

I expect it means you have TOPICS that you need to merge, and I expect that ...

What is the result in Flare? (I'm not sure what you mean that it doesn't work at all).

If the name of the variable is "0IntroCS", do you have other variables that use a digit as the first character? I don't think that would be an issue, but maybe you can try renaming it. Or perhaps it doesn't like ...

Here's a new wrinkle. My client support guy says that he also installed our product directly on the customer's machine, and that the problem still occurs. So now the links don't work even if they open them on the same machine using CSH links.

I think I'm going to open a support ticket....

Bob

I found this entry in the KB: CHM Files Fail to Work When Placed on a Network/Remote Locations . This implies that you cannot use CHMs over the network at all , but we are able to use the CHM just fine on our network. So one would think there is something one could do to fix it....

We have also ...