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Does anyone know an efficient and safe way to quickly combine two identical table styles, both with the same number of columns, into one table?

I've done a couple by putting the tables one after another in the topic editor, then hand-editing the XML. But this is a fidgety and perilous business and ...

pre should preserve indentation (assuming it is tabs).

I believe from past experience that I need to replace tabs with hard / non-breaking spaces.

In the past, attempts to use tabs in online outputs (such as WebHelp) produced unpredictable results. So I learned to use hard spaces instead of tabs ...

Andrew:

Thanks much! -- *pre* is a BIG help. At least I get my line breaks.

Next step for me is to figure out how to preserve the indentation.

Cheers & thanks 'gain,
Riley

My hope is that someone has figured out a quick and more or less repetitively automated way to get code samples into Flare topic files so that the samples look good. Right now I have a big mess on my hands -- I need to figure out how to efficiently format imported Java, XML, and HTML code samples ...

For Flare 6, has anyone figured out a good way to simultaneously indent multiple Flare TOC entries at the same time?

I'm in the process of converting a bunch of Word documents. When I import the Word doc, the TOC places all entries at the same "top" level (despite my having selectively applied Word ...

Jennifer:

I've only been using Flare since mid-March, so as I said I'm certainly no expert.

Having said that, when I thought about how I might create your layout, I thought about creating a topic that I could use as a template. That "template topic" would contain the table I described. When I used ...

Jennifer:

I'm no expert, but if I were trying to create the layout you illustrated, I might begin by creating a reusable source/template topic that in turn contained a two-row table.

- The reusable topic would be the model for new topics of the form you described.

- The first row of the table ...

Ken: Thanks for that! Cheers, Riley

Thank you!

I tried to avoid duplicating an existing post, but seem to have done so regardless:

http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... 13&t=11139

Cheers & thanks,
Riley

This afternoon Flare 6.0 notified me that Flare 6.1 was available for download. So I downloaded and installed it and it appears to be working just fine.

However, I'd be interested in seeing what bug fixes, etc., when into 6.1. Does anyone know how one goes about doing that?

My apologies if I've ...

After a bit of research, my understanding of Flare 6's Project Import functionality has evolved to the following.

Per an email exchange with Flare, the design goal of Project Import was evidently to enable a central administrator to maintain a set of resources which are then loaded into some number ...

Nita:

Thanks -- you planted a seed. I hadn't thought of using a third-party program to parse the contents of the files.

But now that I have, I realize that the jEdit text editor I use for other tasks (http://www.jedit.org/) has extensive search-replace capabilities, including Regex plugins and ...

My apologies if this has already been answered somewhere, but a search of the forum didn't produce anything.

For WebHelp targets, does anyone have any troubleshooting tips for a "given key not present" error?

PLEASE NOTE that I already have a circumvention for this problem -- delete the offending ...

Flare 6 evidently provides no straightforward way to quickly locate or search for text characters that abut a variable without an intervening space.

Does anyone know a reliable and SAFE way to use Find-Replace (or any other tool) to search for these instances and fix them? The key point that ...

Are you saying that's not happening with a snippet that has a heading in it?

That's exactly what I'm saying. More specifically:

1. I created a Snippet that began with an H1 title for the content.

2. I created a topic file at TOC level 2, then inserted the snippet into that topic file.

3. I gen ...

I'm pretty sure I've already answered my own question, but want to sanity check this.

IF I create a Snippet, AND that Snippet has a heading of a certain level, THEN when Flare generates a print target (PDF in this case), the Snippet's heading level doesn't obey the setting "Using TOC depth for ...

I've been futzing around with Flare 6's Adobe AIR target. The reader "workflow" imposed by AIR seems a bit convoluted.

Per the help Flare 6 help system:

The WebHelp AIR output that you generate consists of a single file with an .air extension, which you distribute to users. When users access this ...

I think the issue here is a misunderstanding of what Flare is doing--I don't think it's LINKING files from the global to the non-global ("local"), it's CLONING them.


Carolyn, I believe you're right. Sigh…

In fact, the story began when I added a class to the Global project's CSS file. I fully ...

For Flare 6. Simply put, twenty years of working with computers has taught me that IF I click a link-ized icon, THEN I open the file pointed to by the link. But Flare doesn't seem to work that way...?

I've created a global Flare project which has various project elements (multiple CSS files ...

Does MadCap have any translators they recommend for Lingo translation (or at least, translators who support Lingo)?

Andrew:

I got a couple of names from my Madcap sales rep. I won't pass those names on this forum, but will instead suggest that you -- and anyone else that needs help -- also ...

For what it's worth, I'm still facing my Flare localization problem. And it's getting worse -- a deadline is approaching and the translation vendors aren't especially knowledgeable or helpful.

I'd prefer to use Lingo, but it's been correctly observed that not many localization companies use that ...

Anyone dealt with this?

- Willie

You've summarized several of the key issues that had inspired my original post.

My hope was and is that someone who has been through a complete Flare localization cycle or two will eventually help all of us find our way through the maze.

I'm also not opposed ...

For example, I can output to a monolithic Word target…
Word's world-famous unreliability, document-defacing incompatibilities between successive versions, and clumsy user interface makes me nervous any time I'm compelled to use the product for anything but the smallest ad hoc writing tasks (in ...

If you want to go the Lingo route you may ask MadCap sales about translation service companies that bought Lingo and offer that as a service.

That's a a very good idea. To be continued…

Cheers & thanks,
Riley

I'm curious what work flows Flare users have in place to translate / localize their Flare projects.

I am contract tech writer who recently convinced my current client to use Flare as its documentation authoring environment. The client now wants to translate the U.S. English Flare project into ...