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I can use AltGr + E for the occasional é, but Word keyboard shortcuts such as CTRL+^+a don't work, although I can copy and paste â etc from Word to Flare.

However, that is only viable for very occasional use.

Is there a quicker way to type whole paragraphs containing a scattering of accents ...

Thanks Lisa. TFS is unchanged and I've tried rebuilding the TOC from scratch, adding one topic at a time, compiling after each, but it failed when I'd created less than a quarter of it, i.e. in a different place, with different topics.

I've reverted to the old TOC and will refrain from adding ...

If I create a new, virtually blank topic and insert it in the TOC where the problem topic used to be, it won't compile, but if I put it (or the original problem topic) elsewhere on the TOC, it's OK.

So I deleted that whole section of TOC, recreated it and added topics one by one.

This time I was ...

Hi Lisa.

I've added it to the TOC the same way as I have all the other topics (by dragging and dropping from the Content Explorer) and the topic's file name and first heading are the same as each other, just upper and lower case letters.

The whole project is tied to TFS source control, so I don't ...

Do you think so? I read your topic and a couple of others, but they seemed different enough to justify a separate topic.

I suppose my next step is recreate the topic bit by bit, adding it to the TOC at each stage.

However, even if that works, I'd like to know what caused the problem so I could try ...

One of my projects stopped compiling (others OK) after I created a new topic, though there is nothing obviously untoward in that topic.

I had Flare 6.0.0 running in XP and got the error: "An unhandled win32 exception occurred in hhc.exe [3220]".

I rebooted, deleted the Output directory and tried ...

I had this problem and couldn't solve it immediately, partly because the Knowledge Base article omits a crucial step that Andrew's post mentions (although his post didn't cater for my ignorance of where to find the Links dialog or stupidity in trying to edit the server version):

So the only ...

Given that that is the style used by one of the supplied templates, it seems a little odd that it doesn't default to starting a new chapter, but it's easy now that I know how to fix it.

Thanks very much, Lisa.

Hi Lisa. The style is exactly as it was from the Sample Book project template supplied with Flare:

mc-auto-number-class = (not set)
mc-auto-number-format = CH:Chapter {chapnum}:
mc-auto-number-offset = 0
mc-auto-number-position = inside-head

I have a Flare v6 project with Word and html output that I created from the Sample Book template.

The top level topic at each level of the TOC uses the style h1.chapter. In Word and html output (though not Flare editor) chapters 1, 2, and 3 are numbered correctly. However, any other chapters I ...

That did it (it should have been obvious, really). Thanks.

I am using Flare v6 to single source Word and html.

I have a glossary which is visible in the html output, but I also want it in the Word output.

So I created a topic called Glossary, conditioned it to be PrintOnly and then selected Insert > Proxy > Insert Glossary Proxy. I'm not sure if I'm ...

Hi Lisa. Yes, the StyleRef is to an H1, but it's not a right page, it's a page type of Title (the page type of Right has a reference to H1 that I can see in Flare).

I'm not sure why:
it's picking up the H1 for the index rather than for Chapter 1 (or even Chapter 2)
I can't delete it - or even see ...

I meant to say that I used variables in the master pages in FrameMaker, where I created the original docs. Now that I'm in Flare, you're right, I am working with page layouts.
That makes sense. Hopefully someone else can answer your question (near the bottom of the previous page) about variables ...

I'm not sure of the best option about variables, but you mention master pages, even though you're posting in the section for printed targets. As I understand it, master pages only work for online targets; for printed targets you need to use page layouts.

I'm using Flare 6 for my first attempt at single sourcing Word and html outputs, so I'm getting to grips with page layouts and page types.

I created my project using the Sample Book template, which sets it up nicely with different sorts of pages (title page, TOC, a couple of chapters and an index ...

Thanks Lisa. That solved the main problem, though it's rather fiddly. I'd already changed the page size from Letter (in inches) to A4 (in centimetres), but the margins were still defaulted to 1inch. Anyway, by converting them to cm and then working out the width of the body area, I went to Table ...

I'm trying to do the same thing in Flare v6: a header of left-aligned text in the left and a right-aligned logo in the right, using a table of two columns and one row.

That works in some respects, but in the Word output, the header area is not as wide as the body area, even though they are the same ...

I don't know if there is a rule, and I don't think I'm consistent.

The "quirk" I encounter is if you have a dropdown and then want to insert something immediately after (or immediately before) it that is not part of the dropdown. This is especially awkward if one dropdown is immediately followed by ...

I'm just playing with the trial version.

To kill two birds with one stone, I decided to use it to do a little demo for my mother, showing her how to navigate a particular website.

I created the movie and edited the captions etc without too much trouble, and then wanted to email it to her.

I spent ...

It just happened to me. It was fine first thing, then stopped working. The knowledge base article had the solution (though my bat file was in a different location), so thanks for the link, Lisa.

BUT, does anyone know what causes this and, more importantly, could it happen to an end-user (who would ...

Dave Lee wrote: non-breaking hyphens

Ah, to do that, select Insert > Character > Select 'Quick' Character, and type 8209 in the lower box (for unicode).

Brilliant. Thanks. I don't know why I couldn't get it to work before.

LTinker68 wrote: What do you mean it doesn't work for you? Nothing happens or you don't like the code it inserts?

I mean that I goofed! (Sorry.)

It's non-breaking hyphens that I can't get to work.

I now have Wave too (thanks Durty Mat) and I know it's early days, but I'm very underwhelmed. (I hadn't watched the 80 min video when it was launched.)

It is just a hybrid instant messenger and email, with a few plug-ins but no alerts or RSS when things are updated.

I'm not sure that I'll have ...

Dave Lee wrote: Press Shift + Space.

Note that they don't necessarily appear non-breaking in Flare's editor mind, it seems a bit ropey, but they do work in the preview and output.

Nope. That doesn't work for me. Thanks anyway.