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The default settings of Top & Left 5%, and Width & Height 90% are actually ignored. In addition, the Preview Full Size button is non-intuitive.

If you select the Preview Full Size button, you get that really, really, really, small screen. The tendency is to ignore that ridiculous size and move on ...

Further testing has nullified any "previous session's view" theory. This happens:

* In IE8 and FF4.01
* Always on one writer's machine
* Sometimes on another writer's machine
* Not yet on this writer's machine

The skin settings are the same for several projects (5px from top & left, 90% height ...

Ramon & Lisa, I'll ask everyone to pay a bit more attention, to see if we can isolate the environment. It might well be the secondary window thing (maybe one of those stupid popups from a web site).

Thx,
Leon

[Flare 7, Win XP, IE 8]

Once in awhile, launching a project's WebHelp output produces a really, really, really, really small browser window (about 2-3 inches square).

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Leon

Rename it to an alphabetically superior name, so that it appears above the other two? FirstVariables, AAAVariables, etc.? The other folders are still there, but who cares, since yours is at the top?

It worked for me on Templates.


Good luck,
Leon

In Flare 7, I created a template file that contains two snippets and two paragraphs.

When I create a new topic using that template:
1. The Preview is woefully inaccurate.
2. Flare adds the topic filename as an H1 heading to the top of the new topic (above the first snippet).

TEMPLATE SOURCE CODE ...

The beauty of FAR is that it ignores multiple spaces and line breaks, and that you can keep content as variables, such as:

<b> Some text </b> to <span class="ThisStyle"> Some text </span>

That is, FAR will do the replacement in one swell foop, thereby eliminating the mismatches indicated in your ...

I would like to apply some DITA rules, that is, divide the topics in three areas/folders: a. Reference (only Dialog box descriptions: lookup tables for help in selecting values, filling fields, nd so on, upon hitting F1), b. Procedural (Workflows, detailed steps to accomplish a task, and so on ...

If you're going with "the user," you'd better go with "the users," to stay out of that his/her gender morass ("their" is so much safer, don't you think?).


Leon

[UPDATE]

The conversion from RoboHelp to Flare changed all instances of http-equiv to http_equiv (dash to underscore). They're investigating my bug report further (Case 26234).


Leon

Have you considered the <button>MyButton</button> treatment?

See the w3schools web site http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_button.asp for more info.


Good luck,
Leon

Why is there no Numbered list icon in the Format Text toolbar? That is, I'd prefer having that icon instead of having to select the dropdown from the Bullet List icon to get to the numbered format(s).

Is this "as designed"?


Leon

The <li> tag before the follow-on paras (which by the way, is not closed further down) should be removed:

<li>
<p>follow-on paragraph, text aligned with text from bullet BUT NO BULLET</p>
<p>Another paragraph without a bullet (but where's the spacing between paragraphs gone?)</p>


Good luck ...

Real world?

The more complicated it is, the less likely they'll all conform all the time...

I'd stick with the default toolbar icons.


Good luck,
Leon

In our merged WebHelp (up till now in that other HAT), we've been adding redirect pages (using the REFRESH meta tag) in one child project TOC section as a way to link to a page in another child project TOC section. However, this isn't working in Flare (it's actually not even working when linking to ...

You'll probably need to extend the css styling to the list item, such as:

ol li {list-style: upper-roman;}
ol ol li {list-style: upper-alpha;}
ol ol ol li {list-style: decimal;}
ol ol ol ol li {list-style: lower-alpha;}

Generally, you would assign indent, vertical spacing, etc. to the ol and ul ...

You must have neglected to actually select a condition tag from the right-hand side of the Condition Tags window (right click the selected text and choose Conditions). :( If you had, your code should look like:

<MadCap:conditionalText MadCap:conditions="Primary.Online" >Conditional Text</MadCap ...

Looks like early March, according to the dates on the ANNOUNCEMENTS postings on the Flare's General Discussions page.


Good luck,
Leon

Upon further review, Flare appears to be saving me from myself (admirable but annoying).

The P styles it is hiding are what I'd call Structural Default Stuff (yes, that's the technical term!), such as Concept, Index n , ListOf, miniTOC n , and TOC n . Since it's unlikely that I'd be assigning any ...

In the Style Class dropdown (right click a P block) of the XML Editor, how do I get beyond this message, to see all of them? Is my only option to lose screen real estate by opening the entire Style Window?

Obviously, I want to assign one of those hidden 37 styles! Grrrr....


Leon

You might take a hard look at the table, to see if there's any way of eliminating/coordinating some columns, usually labeled as Comments, Prerequisites, etc., which often have text in only a few rows. These bits of content can often be either added on a separate line in column 1 or 2, or added as ...

Actually, "a few test runs and tweaks" might be overly optimistic, depending on the quality level of the existing files. I remember converting ArborText to RoboHelp a dozen years ago, and I and another writer made hundreds of test runs, constantly finding yet another badly coded example in the ...

I believe those bars are the Separator toolbar element, rather than borders. Check out the Selected column in the WebHelp Toolbar tab for the skin you're using.


Good luck,
Leon

Every help authoring tool will have "non-standard, [xxxx]-proprietary detritus in it," none of which should be seen by anyone viewing the web pages in a browser.

As to the help vs. web page issue, have you investigated creating a third target for WebHelp or HTML Help that would have no left ...

In the Rows tab, click the top icon (New item), enter a name (we used Subhead), and select Custom from the Type dropdown. Then, set your Row Style Properties (we have identical font/background color to the Header).

In the table, select the tr block, right click and select your custom row from the ...