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Ok... it's official. I'm no longer puzzled. I'm pissed.

Here's the XML Source code:

<p>Test: <MadCap:xref href="Overview.htm">"Overview" (page 1)</MadCap:xref><br />
Test: <MadCap:xref href="GettingStarted.htm">"Getting Started" (page 1)</MadCap:xref> </p>

There has been no change in the CSS ...

Lisa,

Though this particular project is small, I am planning for the future and I am not sure having 2 style sheets will be very easy or fun to manage. So I consider a PDF to be "print" and a webhelp to be "non-print". I'm assuming that this was the intent of the feature (though I do know that ...

Erm....

Wait, what? I just tried that again by checking "exclude" on the getting started, for the PDF and Web outputs... And it works.

I did modifications before now, so... maybe I tried to do something too fancy and now this is working fine.

Hmmm.

Where do these blocks appear? At the bottom of each page or one time only at the beginning of the document/help?

The 3 blocks are at the top of the page, just under the header. Here's what it looks like in the editor, along with the condition tags:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v148 ...

It seems everyone is thinking that I'm putting tags on things that should be in all outputs - it's not the case.

Let me restate the original issue:

I have 3 paragraphs (3 blocks).
Each one should appear in only one output.
2 of these output targets are a full user guide, one PDF, one WebHelp ...

Is the behavior happening in the built output or in the Preview window?

I hadn't tried the preview (since it was obvious that cross-references wouldn't work in preview mode), but I just tried and I get the same behaviour. One difference though, this time the physical path to the file, in the link ...

Hello All,

I'm having a pretty odd issue with cross-references in my document. First, this is the style I'm using:

MadCap|xref
{
mc-format: '{quote}{paratext}{quote} (page {page})';
}

@media non-print
{
MadCap|xref
{
mc-format: '{paratext}';
}
}

And when I create a cross-reference, this ...

I understand why there needs to be a default behaviour, and I agree on that. Especially the "include whatever doesn't have a condition tag on it" - it would be excruciating otherwise, having to put tags on everything.

However I do hope that there can be a way to specify forced exclusions. From my ...

So what I get from what both of you are telling me, if there is both an include and an exclude on a variable it gets included. I get that.

I guess at this point I need to look at my logic, find out if there's anything I can do to fix it, and make a feature request to have more fine-grained control ...

I don't know if it's really a confusion on my part or Flare's.

The thing is there are 2 sets of conditions and 2 sets of tags - and as far as I can tell from the documentation, there is no clear rule on what takes priority and when.

There are definitely tags on the objects I'm trying to put ...

I also tried creating a snippet with with only the "User Guide" sections and having each of the two sections have conditions (one Web, one PDF). That did not work, possibly conditions in snippets are ignored... or conditions on snippets that have a condition are ignored.

Hi!

I am currently creating 3 outputs from a single project in Flare:
- One "Getting Started" guide with limited information on installation and activation of our product
- One "User Guide" PDF with all the information necessary to use the software (on top of what the Getting Started has)
- One ...

Aha! Nevermind all, I found out how to fix it.

I did not have an "Empty" page in the layout, I added it and it works fine.

Unfortunately the documentation was a bit vague in that respect - it says it will add "page breaks" but doesn't say you need to have a page of "Empty" type to do so.

Once ...

Hi there!

I'm generating a PDF using a PDF Output type target, and I'm trying to force it to generate blank pages in order for new sections to always be on the right page.

I have page-break-before: right; in the CSS for the H1.Logoheader style and this style is applied to all my headers. When I ...

Having a condition on a folder is a good tip, thanks for that Dave!

Is it possible for the contents of a Flare project to be outside of it's default contents folder (external source)?

Hey all,

I'm currently using Flare to write the documentation for a new product we're launching mid-June which makes 1½ months to write the whole doc - thankfully it's a really simple software. The doc is linear simply because we don't have time to start planning the single-sourcing part and ...

I've always been under the impression that "perfect matches" were not words - they were sentences, paragraphs quotes...

That is, if I have this:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

It'll be a perfect match to this:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

But it'll be a "fuzzy match ...

David,

I understand that you had little budget to go with and that may explain some of the limitations. Be honest though, even for a non-graphic artist, re-creating this cover is trivial at best. It's not complex graphics, it's just shapes and lines and probably should have taken less time to re-do ...

Thanks Lisa,

I'll report this as a bug I guess. In the meantime your code works, so I'll use that.

Hmn .

That didn't seem to work. I just added GF: at the beginning:

p.screenshot span
{
mc-auto-number-format: 'GF:Figure {n+} : ';
}

And it didn't work after putting back the new chapter checkmark.

Here's the HTML (perhaps putting this inside a <span> which is inside a <p> causes this? I ...

I really don't know why everything that should be so simple becomes a battle that really is starting to get on my nerves.

I looked up autonumbering and it seemed straightforward - you just plug in the variables and it works. For example, using "Figure {chapnum}-{n+}:" should show figure 1-1, 1-2, 1 ...

If I may offer a small comment on the book... I have a softcover version (if there are multiple, I don't know, it's orange/red/green) and I have to say the quality of this book seems a bit sub-par, in terms of presentation.

First, the cover of the book looks like a 72dpi JPG, there's compression ...

Thanks for all the inputs everyone.

I guess at the moment I'm just stuck with it, I've made the feature request and hope it will be implemented in the future.

Lisa,

The TOC Proxy in a topic is exactly what I am using, and that is exactly what's failing to meet my basic expectations. The explanation of the problem is harder precisely because the "TOC Proxy" doesn't produce the same output as the "Master.fltoc" TOC file in the project. It's confusing as ...

Hi everyone,

I'm kind of new to flare, though I've read the "Five Steps to Flare" and I'm a pretty fast learner. There are a few very frustrating things with Flare6 though, and perhaps someone could help me with one of those frustrations.

I am creating the documentation for a product, which has 2 ...