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I think I've just found it. Should I use the Page type in the TOC entry where right is odd and left is even? or is there another way - I thought I might be able to do it through styles?

liz

Dear madcaps,

I have a layout which is designed, when used in paper form to be pairs of pages; crudely a picture on the left and instructions on the right. Sometimes the instructions spread to more than one page. So what I want to so is say the picture page always starts on an even page and the ...

hmmm, not perfect. I wonder if anyone has imported a DITA glossary?

About the glossary proxy, I thought this was for printed out put and my question was relating to on-line, does your answer apply?

Thank you.................... liz

Dear madcaps,

Before I waste a lot of time finding out how this works I thought it would be quicker to pick you brains:

My glossary will have a lot of my entries with an official abbreviation I want to be able to have the term, its abbreviation and possibly a category:
can I introduce additional ...

Very helpful guys, thank you, i shall now have a go............. liz

The problem in the end was a "corrupt" page layout. It was clear what exactly but in the end I recreated my page layouts, recreated the topics with the problem and all, thuis far, is ok

liz

Dear Lisa,

Thank you, it is quite a relief to know that I'm not going mad and that my CSS is OK after all.

Before I continue I'd like to understand what the page area shown on a page layout is and whether it excludes or includes the margins? There is also the margins relating to unprintable space ...

Yes, this works well.

It would be EVEN NICER if I was able to specify that the layout only applied to that one topic and therefore the previously set layout would apply on the next this way a default could be set and overidden when required without having to remember to adjust the next topic. As it ...

Dear madcaps,

I thought I understood this area of CSS but apparently not! Here is what i want to do:

I have a pdf output where the header has this construct:
two text lines left aligned with a project & title,
one line right aligned but with the same baseline as the second line of 1
one image ...

Dear madcaps,

This is what has finally resolved the issue:

1) Close the Flare
2) Using windows explorer, browse to the folder with your project
3) Delete the Analyzer and Output folders (move the output folder elsewhere if it has outputs you do not want to lose)
4) Browse into your Project folder ...

Dear madcaps,

This is under investigation by the development team. Just in case it helps someone else one of the remedy steps is to clear the Application Data. This needs doing from all the AppData folders in the User folder, the folder in question is Madcap Software, however you may only want to ...

Dear Madcaps,

When I define a page layout what is the white area shown? Is it the page area excluding or including the margins?

Are the margins considered unprintable space? in which case my header & footer proxys are inside the margins and all elements can run to the edge of the white area ...

Dear Madcaps,

I need to have a portrait document that contains landscape diagrams and that page will have different margins to the standard portrait page defined in the master page layout. How do I acheive this, can I assign a page layout just to a topic to achive this?

many thanks ...

Dear Madcaps,
I am wondering what the value of these are and how people use them. By default they are the title of the topic linked to but since you can change them it would seem that they could be used somehow. I can see that TOC Book names would be useful to use in page or chapter numbering and ...

oh yes, that's just what I need, thank you!

Dear Madcaps,

Can a style be a print only style. In otherwords if applied to a pragrapg could it ne suppressed by virtue of the style, becasue the style is associated with a condition?

Thank you....................... liz

Hello madcaps,

I seem to have identified the problem, I suspect it's a bug.
If I have this configuration it doesn't work
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This has an unlinked book immediately after a book
But this does
16-04-2012 16-11-52ok.gif
In this case I moved the unlinked book to below a topic ...

Dear madcaps,

I have this problem and have tried the solution described here but to no avail. My last attempt used this procedure:
Close any floating windows
Close Flare
Rename the C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\MadCap Software\Flare folder
Open Flare
Build the document (happen to be a ...

Hi dan,

Just back after Easter break.

What i want to do is automatically display an image "title" and thought I might be able to use the ALT text field so that it is all done & dusted at the time the image is inserted. In this case my captions are usually a title which is obvious and explanatory ...

Dear madcaps,
Is it possible to display an image's ALT text as a caption using some sort of shotcode or something?

Thank you..................... liz

Dear madcaps,

If I create a topic based on a template is that link retained by the topic - so if something changes in the templates does that ripple through, if so which sort of changes would that apply to:? Also if they are linked and I want to link to a new template how would I do that? I can't ...

Steve,
Already checked...

No USB attached
Have searched registry - nothing
Have search Flare content - nothing
Have searched Flare configuration - nothing although am prepared to believe I haven't checked everything

Is this a clue? - When creating a new topic if i select New from existing it ...

Dear madcaps,

Has anyone tried to use vertical text alignment? I have attempted to do this in a table cell using the following settings which I have used previously in a css outside of Flare:
03-04-2012 15-03-25.png
However two problems:
In Preview although I do get vertical text the cell it is ...

OK Problem solved. I went back to basics and started again.

The solution is to create a table and leave the table style as defualt then apply the tc classes and I get exactly what I want. the table is not redrawn on applying the classes.

I suppose I'm left wondering if table stales are of any use ...

Problem 1 - mixed borders in a table
I changed the approach and used paragraph styles but, I wasn't thinking, the borders that i want apply to cells not paragraphs so I don't know how to get th effect I want, that is this:
03-04-2012 10-42-24.png
However it is worth noting that this is as it ...