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I've seen a similar thing on imported tables with merged cells - extra "phantom" columns were added outside the table proper. Seems like somewhere along the line the colspan and number of columns or cells got out of sync. Couldn't fix it in the XML editor so went into the code and removed the extra ...

And the Related Topics? Any way to make that visible in the XML Editor without turning on Show Markers?

See also http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... =13&t=8765

If you are sharing fltoc files, submit them as binary.

This could be the final word - save the fltoc as binary in source control.

This recommended by Madcap support (and my local source control guru).

Submitted as binary - can now be shared without breaking. Can also do a diff in text mode, so I'm hoping that it will be mergeable.

Incidentally, saved ...

So is this a source control problem, a Flare problem or a local system problem?

We've just had a recurrence of same. Cleaned up (thanks for the tips, TtT) by removing leading chars, hex 00 and extra groups of line breaks in TextPad.

Question is - why only the TOC file? There are thousands of other ...

Thanks, guys.

Did open the folder and Help > About but didn't understand Qt Assistant. Do now.

Looks like a (nice) viewer GUI for plain old HTML files. Was hoping that I could do it in Flare.

There are other threads on the Perforce issue.

Binding in Flare does not seem to be resolved. I last tested it with Flare 5.0, with the same results as reported by other posters.

As I see it, the upshot is:

Don't try to bind your Flare project to Perforce - although it seems to work, it has ...

Does anyone know what format this compiled help is in? Looks much better than the dated HTML Help I'm using at present.

When citing references where there are multiple entries for a given year, you suffix (a), (b), etc.

That sort of thing would work, surely?

I'd also be interested to find out if there is a convention for such duplicates.

Andrew

Can someone pleeease correct the title of this thread. Gives me the irrits.

In the XML editor I most frequently use the Show Markers option. This is accessed under the Show Tags button, which I almost never use.

Is there any way to get the button to default to Show Markers instead of Show Tags?
Or is there a shortcut for Show Markers?

Related query -

One of the reasons ...

I like it too, and use it frequently - I second the keyboard-only operation.

My only gripe is the double-click mouse selection - sometimes it is convenient to use the mouse. It should be single click the same as the Style panel.

Good suggestions - thanks.

Being exceedingly dim, I didn't think of using other applications to edit the html.

I'll put in a request.

As far as I am aware, Flare doesn't support macros, Microsoft-style.

If this is indeed the case, what would be the best way to apply a series of formatting actions, viz:

1) find the next para of a given style
2) change it to numbered list
3) set to continue sequence
4) set to a para style
5 ...

Shouldn't the ruler scale change when you zoom the text?

And another thing - why do some popups auto-size and others not?

Also - the breadcrumbs proxy seems to be omitted from the popup window (this is good).

And - in preview mode from the XML editor, neither toolbar nor breadcrumbs are in the popup window - this is the way I expected it.

A keen tester found this one just now.

Setting
* I have many popups, e.g. in glossary and similar
* I am using a master page, so can only use one stylesheet
* My master page has a toolbar proxy and a breadcrumbs proxy
* The master page and proxies are therefore applied to the popups

My toolbar ...

Thanks, Pete, for the links.

I think I saw your post (and lack of responses) in HATT. I was hoping for an alternative to chm - it works really well but it is terribly dated and can't be styled at all. Crazy that Microsoft recommends it but does nothing to develop it. Can't be a revenue stream, I ...

Windows Presentation Foundation

Our next generation application is being developed using WPF. Anyone know anything about this and how it may impact online help delivery? What's the best format?

It seems that I am chasing rainbows. Web search tells me that there isn't an application for converting Word lists to <li>.

Am testing the flimp linked file option.

Edit

flimp works well. Minimised <ol> by replacing Word bullets and numbered lists with styles for conversion to <p> and <h ...

I'm having trouble with this too.

I have a file that is going to be updated every release. So I need to have it available in Word format for editing by developers. I naively envisaged that I could freely import and export this topic between Word and Flare. Not the case.

The difficulty seems to be ...

Coming into this 18 months late...

I agree. I abhor those sneaky little hard page breaks and use Keep with Next or Page Break Before style or paragraph settings.

Actually you don't have to have the files checked out, but it does make life a bit easier - you avoid a few dialogs!

If a Flare file is not checked out in P4, the local file is, of course, read-only. Flare is smart enough to recognise this, and can, on request, make the file read-write before ...

Thanks Kevin. Bug submitted.

More info: just had our resident Perforce guru look at it and after various tweaks and prods he came to the conclusion that it's a Flare thing, not anything wrong with my Perforce configuration, as far as he can tell.

Another development -

Managed to get past the read-only memory stage (Flare just decided to let me in on one go) but couldn't get the Import project from Source Control wizard to recognise the project file.