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You shouldn't need to initialize the tags.

You may be compounding the issue with the table class. You don't want to specify width on the table and all of its columns -- you need to have at least one column not have a set width, otherwise it's too easy to get in a conflict between how wide the ...

Nope, it's not that. I've just removed the <p> and </p> items from both of the table cells, and the only thing that changed was the formatting relevant to the <p> classes was removed, the width of the first column stayed as auto and not 15mm wide.

Hmm... not sure what's going on here, but it didn't work in setting the width of the column.

I have defined the following in my stylesheet (nothing in <td>):

td.NoteHead
{
width: 15mm;
}

and

table.TableRegular
{
border-collapse: collapse;
width: 100%;
}


and here's my code from my topic ...

Thank you both, yet again. I expect there will be lightbulbs appearing all over the top of my head now!

Thanks for your workaround - it works! However, just like you, I would have to update many headings manually. Furthermore, many of these headings include variables, and then things would become complicated...

Yes, please contact support and urge them to do something about it. For people using ...

This is exactly what I was looking for, in the absence of being able to set the width for a whole column using the XML editor and Flare interface. If I have a table with several rows and I highlight the column by clicking the structure bar for the column at the top and then apply a <td> style, will ...

I've been using structure bars quite a lot, but I do still have to pop into the text editor to make changes because I can't figure out how to do stuff, for example, in the middle of a list I might want a paragraph that doesn't have a number.

1. Do this action.
This is the result of doing the ...

Hi.

I know about widows and orphans (fortunately my DTP background hasn't been a complete waste of time!) but I'm thinking more of a paragraph in the middle of a page.

Here is an example pretend paragraph in a narrow
column which sits happily in the middle of a page but
the last word falls in an ...

Feature request submitted - and very handily given the link in your footer, forfear - I like your style!

The more I work with this package, the more I dislike it. It's really too late to go back to something I can enjoy working with for the particular project, and I live in the (I suspect futile ...

Are you looking in the page layout editor, in the XML editor for an associated topic or in the generated output?

If in the XML and your header page includes things like headings taken from other paragraphs like headings, then Flare isn't going to have any way to know what to put in it.

If the page ...

I'm sure this is an easy one for someone to answer.

I have a paragraph that has a single short word on the end, and that short word pops onto the last line of the paragraph. I have a sneaky suspicion there's an attribute you can assign to limit the length of the last line so that the word before ...

i-tietz, you have just scared the pants off me with that as I most certainly don't work with anyone who knows their way around javascript! :D

Working completely on my own on this one, so I have to rely on the skills, tips and tricks that I can pick up on my own (with the help of this forum, of ...

I'm only guessing here, so there are several things that might or might not be relevant.

If the paragraph that the graphic is in also has a "keep with next" (page break after = avoid) attribute, could that possibly override the "keep with previous"?

There might be some individual attributes ...

I can answer that one!

In the page layout that is used for the relevant chapter, you need to make sure you have an "Empty" page layout. While that page can be completely empty if you want it to, you can include other things on the "Empty" page, such as page numbers or standard headers and footers ...

I was wondering about the more general approach of defining table classes e.g. <table.regular> with the left margins and widths set, and then <th> classes, <tr> classes and putting <p.tabletext> paragraphs inside the cells, and then also having the <col> classes to allow me to set the width of a ...

How did I know it'd be you who answered? :wink:

Not quite what I wanted to hear but not surprised I'm hearing it, so enhancement request has been submitted.

Do you think doing this with tables is a sensible approach to take when working with simple tables? I'm not looking to have anything ...

I am using the same info to produce two different PDF outputs, with two separate style sheets.

I am using tables fairly extensively (despite advice very early on to avoid if at all possible!) and I have figured out that you can set the style for the first column which applies a uniform width, by ...

That code is what is inserted if you insert a non-breaking space from the toolbar at the top of the Flare UI.

I'll report it as a bug in the meantime. Thanks.

I don't know whether this is a bug or yet another thing that I'm doing wrong.

Desired output is a PDF for printing.

I have a two-word company name that I don't want to wrap around rows, so I thought the obvious thing was to include a non-breaking space between the two words. Unfortunately the ...

Update: I think I might have solved this one, though it's less than ideal and the very nice support chap also identified a bug which had compounded the problem, which is why I was getting so frustrated because the obvious solution just didn't work. More of that in a minute.

What I wanted was a book ...

Update:

In a support call today it was suggested that if I want to have Heading 3s showing up in my PDF bookmarks but not in my main TOC, I should create bookmarks from all the Heading 3 headings and then in the PDF Options section of the PDF Target, check the checkbox "Include non-TOC bookmarks in ...

Font issues, perhaps? Do you have the font that you use for those symbols installed in your machine?

(That's just a wild guess, by the way, but a simple thing to check so worth ruling out the simple things. Lisa will probably be along in a minute to answer your question.)

In one of the menu bars along the top there are arrows. If you hover your cursor over them you should see useful tooltips. If you highlight the topic (or possibly topics) and then click on the arrow that says "Move item to the left" it should move the topics first of all to the same level as ...

There are some topics that don't actually have anything in between the <head> and </head> tags - should they? I admit I've done a lot of messing around with the content of my project trying to get it to behave. Should they all have reference to the style sheets?

(By "messing around" I mean cutting ...

One way that surely will work is creating another style, but that makes only sense when you can determine beforehand which heading will end up at the top of a page.

Hmm... that's not that much further than deciding to carve the whole thing in a block of stone in best caveman stylee!

:D

So I ...