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Cecily

As I understand it, a master stylesheet is OK if you only have one css, but no good if you have more. I have two, so couldn't apply a master stylesheet to the project.
Presumably you could still apply a master stylesheet, but you'd have to override it for individual topics.

At the risk of ...

Cecily

opened the snipped with the Internal Text Editor and added:
<link href="../Stylesheets/MyCSS.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
to the file after the <head> line.
Thanks, but that had no effect.

However, it turned out that although all my topics pick up the correct stylesheet when I create ...

Cecily

I have formatted text in a topic that I want to convert to a snippet. If I do Format > Create Snippet, it duly creates the snippet in the Resources folder and, if I accept the default, replaces the source content with the new snippet.

However, when I want to edit the snippet, the choice of styles ...

Cecily

I expect the answer to this is either a straight "no", or something embarrassingly obvious, but here goes:

I'm pretty sure I can't convert the TOC of a compiled chm into text (so it can be used elsewhere, such as in a spreadsheet listing topics and tasks), but inside Flare, can I convert or export ...

Cecily

Very true - even if a topic is not on the TOC and is set as not searchable, a user may still find it if there are hyperlinks to it.

Nevertheless, my concern about disabling search being a relatively invisible property (and thus easily forgotten) still stands - I think (I didn't explain myself very ...

Cecily

By default, HTML Help (chm) and WebHelp outputs include all topics, unless they're conditionalized out.

If you want a topic to be in the output but not be searchable -- say, if it's only used as a popup topic -- then you can set the topic to not be searchable. That's done in the Topic Properties ...

Cecily

I don't know what caused your problem, but my Flare 4.2 is still OK.

Cecily

I open his .htm file in X-Edit and compare to my topics.
Presumably you just do that by eye, though if he's using annotations, differences should be easy to spot?

I can't test because Flare is on a different drive than my email account. I can't seem to create the .fltrev without this connection ...

Cecily

Cecily,
I have zipped many .htm files and sent them for review. Reviewers can annotate .htm files in X-Edit Review and send them back. This works ok, but they can't see snippets or images.
That's an interesting idea, thanks. But then of course you're doing much of it outside Flare/X-Edit, so you ...

Cecily

Dave Lee wrote:I'm also in England, and propeller looks wrong to me.

Really? It's how the OED spells it.

Dave Lee wrote:Anyway, what's your favorite color?

Blue for clothes; gold for jewellery; green for scenery and autumnal for food!

Cecily

alaltenburg wrote:Just to play the Technical Writer, notice that it's spelled "Propeller"

Is it a US/UK thing? Propeller looks right to me, here in England.

The one that narks me is Favorites, but that's another story.

Cecily

You might find this topic has your answer too: http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... 809#p45809.

Cecily

Isn't that the same way in Word? You are in edit mode by default, but have to do something extra to annotate and once done leave that mode.
Well, in Word, you are in edit mode and it's just one click to add an annotation and you can immediately continue with normal editing afterwards. From what my ...

Cecily

Answering myself here, but hopefully it's useful for others (and indeed me, if I forget!).

In a table, I right clicked, selected Table Style > Edit Style.

This gave me a dialog with more options, including a General tab which included Table Margins (albeit so far off to the right so I barely knew ...

Cecily

Thanks, but can you dumb that down a bit?

I'm not knowingly using table styles (slapped wrist). I just do Table > Insert Table and then specify the number of columns and rows and the AutoFit behaviour.

I've looked in the CSS in the internal text editor, but I don't think it's using table ...

Cecily

Thanks for those ideas. I couldn't see any difference when opening the problem topic and another in the internal text editor, I'm not using master pages and the stylesheet did contain the styles and worked for all the other topics using it.

As it only seemed to be one topic that was missing styles ...

Cecily

I used X-Edit for the first time today - or rather, one of my reviewers did.

No complex download any more and she found it pretty straightforward in general.

Our main gripes:

The reviewer found it a little irritating to have to switch between Edit and Annotate modes.
I was annoyed that there ...

Cecily

What version of Flare are you using? If you're using v4, then there's an option to specify a left margin in the Table Properties screen, but you need to set the table position to "left". (I think that's where the left margin can be set -- I don't have Flare open at the moment.)

I have 4.1 and ...

Cecily

Alternatively(ish), can you send the TOC, so reviewers can see the hierarchy of topics (other than by emailing a screenshot)?

Cecily

I've just sent a few topics for review using X-Edit for the first time.

It was all pretty straightforward, for me and the reviewer.

I ticked "Allow Reviewers to Edit Content", which avoided the hassle of creating and then implementing annotations, but I can't see what she has changed.

Have we ...

Cecily

Can you?

Generating an individual email for each topic is a little time consuming, and you also need to send the reviewer info on the TOC and/or browse sequence so they can see how topics relate to each other, whereas if you could bundle up several into a specific order, it might be easier all ...

Cecily

In addition to the info on how to fix this problem ( http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/Content/Flare/Output%20Types/HTML%20Help/OUTH1003%20Missing%20Search%20Results%20in%20HTML%20Help.htm , which says to navigate to C:\Program Files\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare\Flare.app\Resources\Bin and run ...

Cecily

Thanks, I've done that (as per Knowlegebase article I was pointed to before). Of course as it's on the build server this time, I have to wait for it to build, uninstall the product, reinstall the latest interim build and then view the help. Not difficult, but annoyingly time consuming.

Cecily

I recently upgraded to 4.1 (second time) and although the Search worked fine when I compiled locally, I got this problem on help compiled on the build server, which isn't something I can test as quickly or easily.

Off goes a bug report to MadCap...

Cecily

Global Project Linking is the phrase you want to read up on in Flare's help. (Three consecutive prepositions in that sentence - and I think it still makes sense!)

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