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Based on my initial experiences with Flare 6 in March, I successfully convinced my current client to use Flare as its documentation authoring and production tool. I'm now hoping to learn whether using Lingo will be an equally happy affair.

My client has the need to translate the Flare documentation ...

For Flare 6. The short version of the question is that I'd like format the layout of the page produced by the "Preview completed topic" tool for better printing.

The longer version of the question follows.

For a start, I'm finding it very helpful and easy to click Preview compiled topic , then ...

In Flare 6, is anyone delivering the XHTML target in production, and is yes, how?

It seems to me, based on cursory exploration, that the XHTML target is a figurative orphan, with scant online help information and no apparent fan base on this forum(?)

Moreover, the Flare online help topic About ...

For Flare 6 print output (PDF or Word), can one format header or footer proxy objects so that one item is left-aligned margin and one object is right-aligned?

For example, at the leftmost side of the footer I want a date; on the rightmost side I want a page number.

The left/right alignment buttons ...

Andrew:

Yes!

I too prefer driving a program from the keyboard whenever possible. So I was delighted to learn of this particular feature.

Cheers & thanks much,
Riley

In Flare 6, I have a custom span class called UserInterface . It formats text with the same font and font style as that used in a particular product's user interface.

Applying this custom span class in the multiple places it's needed is a pain in the [wrist]! I must (1) carefully highlight the text ...

Steve:

Thanks, that did it.

For what it's worth, with the answer in hand I went back to the online help and did a variety of searches that included the words page, number, inline, and format. Never did find the answer, so I'll submit an enhancement request; albeit a humbly worded one lest my ...

For print output (PDF but sometimes Word, too), I've been trying to figure out how to format the page number's font, style, color, etc..

I've quickly figured out how to put a page number in the footer of a master page, and even align the page number on the right side of the page.

But I can't ...

Per DocuWil:

Nowadays I never create an output to Word, only to PDF, unless a customer insists to do so.

I'm no fan of Word (believe me!) but my customer requires Word for purposes of documentation review and localization. And, no, said customer isn't interested in buying Madcap-specific tools ...

My semi-informed understanding is that in fact there are several Flare bugs pertaining to the quality of Word targets, particularly Word targets that end up being opened / viewed in Word 2007.

As one of those experiencing problems, I'm creating this thread in an attempt:

Capture the various ...

I'm sanity checking the results of my research regarding the ability to use a Flare 6 condition tag to select a (small) subset of project topics for inclusion in a given target.

What I wanted to do was create a "TestGen" condition and apply it to (A) a glossary file at the very end of a large ...

…the Cell Content Styles feature…

Dare I suggest that tip would make a lovely addition to the Flare Procedural Steps, Tips and Tricks forum?

Cheers & thanks 'gain to all,
Riley

Thanks Lisa and Andrew!

I suspected there was a good reason for what I was observing…

Cheers & thanks 'gain,
Riley

I may be setting myself up for a "Doh!" moment, but I have a question about (not necessarily a problem with) Flare's handling of the TD element.

More specifically, I'm happy to let Flare manage my tables if need be, but would like to more clearly understand the logic involved.

BACKGROUND -
I ...

For anyone who gets this far in the thread, here are the steps that enable you to get un-numbered paragraphs (and nicely aligned ones, too) into a numbered list.

1. Begin a numbered list with two or three items.

2. Place the insertion point at the end of a numbered item that you want to follow ...

Andrew:

You have to press Enter at the end of your list item after you make the <li> a paragraph item. That will get you a new <p> that does NOT contain a numeral. Hope that helps.

That was it -- just that simple! It's also funny, now that it's been solved.

Cheers & thanks,
Riley

Lisa:

Well, something seems broken. The following illustrates the way I'm going about this.

First, I type four lines of text as follows:

One.
Two.
Three.
Four.

Next I select all four lines, then in the list tool click Numbered list. I now have:

1. One.
2. Two.
3. Three.
4. Four.

So far, so ...

I've been using Flare 6's GUI tools to create procedures as ordered lists interspersed with descriptions of what happens in response to each step.

However, the only way I have found to get the construction to work is to create a series of paragraphs, then selectively make a repeating series of the ...

Hmm, thought I'd closed the loop on this thread but don't see my resolution so I'll submit it again.

RamonS was correct. My Windows 7 laptop had Flash 9 installed. Removing it and installing Flash 10 resolved the problem.

Cheers & hope this helps,
Riley

Dave:

Thanks. I've actually been trying a lot of examples from the Web in Flare. It may very well be because I'm going about it wrong, but so far my attempts to edit my Flare project's CSS in an external editor for purposes of resetting a named counter and then increment it in an OL haven't worked ...

Lisa:

Thanks.

I do appreciate all the possible work-arounds and all, but I'm really hoping that someone will respond directly to my question in the form of " counter-increment doesn't work in Flare 6 because…". or "Yes, you do it as follows…".

Cheers & thanks again,
Riley

Andrew:

Thanks, but…

* The GUI tools (which, again, I'm using and do understand) create a series of UL/OL with single LI interwoven with Paragraphs.

This works well enough BUT, to indent the "step response" item at the same level as the numbered items requires a separate indented paragraph ...

Lisa:

> I recommend using the "Make Paragraph item(s)" in the list actions menu.

Thanks but as I said in my original post, I'm familiar with Flare 6's GUI tools for managing list behaviors. They work great. I know 'cuz I'm currently using them.

What I'm instead hoping to do, if possible, is use ...

For a start, I understand that Flare has a nifty GUI "list actions" tool that one can use to control all sorts of numbering behaviors in ordered lists. And that GUI tool does indeed work quite well.

At the same time, in the Flare 6 CSS editor, Advanced View, the Unclassified elements section ...

For Flare 6, is it possible to insert a non-breaking space (or similar special character) into autonumbering statements?>

For example, if I autonumber my figure captions as Figure {n+}: (without the quotation marks), is there any way to get a non-breaking space between Figure and {n+} ? Otherwise ...