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I'm a little peeved right now. I have a project that has been translated into 7 different languages, and the projects are all ready to output. Each project has two targets (Web and PDF) in two destinations ("Dev" and "Live").

The issues I'm having:

There's no "-destination=live" option in the ...

Thanks ChoccieMuffin , I spoke to our translator and they indeed use Trados, and they'll provide this for us.

Sometimes I just want to be in independent

Hi everyone!

We're currently getting our Flare projects translated externally and, while it took some work to get them to properly modify the output so it was workable "out of the box" (changing the project language so the webhelp skin was in the correct one, changing destination paths, etc), they ...

That's it!

Thanks Rob, that's exactly it. It was the source language that was indicated as English (United States) and not just English . And now, it's been "working" on my first file for a few minutes, which seems to indicate to me that it's working fine now (considering my TM database is on a ...

Well, the only thing I ever did in Lingo was to create projects, it's the first time I do statistics (I hadn't installed a TM before) and I never went into the settings or preferences.

So, I doubt that would be it, unless someone can tell me where such an option would be...

That aren't exactly the same, but they're within a reasonable margin, no more than a hundred.

I rechecked the quote they sent me - there should ve over 18,000 perfect matches.

I'm not sure if I did something wrong here...
I installed a TM database, loaded my TMX into it, selected the correct languages, and tried to get the statistics. But here's what the result looks like:

Match Types Segments Words
Duplicates 187 1706
Translated 0 0
100% 0 0
95% - 99% 0 0
85% - 94 ...

I'll chime in also here, we have a project that is currently being localized into 6 different languages by our translation company. We simply zip & send them the original English project, and they return us 6 zip files with a complete, localized, ready-to-output projects each in their own separate ...

Thanks for the suggestions!

It's not critical that the caption be there - I think people are smart enough to realize that the table is split in 2 pages at a glance. After all, our clients are - generally - somewhat over the average in technical expertise. Can't rely on that too much, but it's still ...

Well, that works fine for the thead row, but not for the caption.

Good enough, I'll just do something else for the caption!

Thanks

Is there any way to use the stylesheet to specify that, in a printed output, tables that are broken down between two pages should repeat the header (<thead>), as well as the <caption> caption (but adding (continued) in the end?)

I see this in printed manuals all the time, right now I have at least ...

Thanks Dave, I submitted a feature request.

In reality, I'd much rather not use @import since this means it's included in all my outputs (which is not necessary). Plus I'd like to import stylesheets *sometimes* on a per-page basis, since the CSS controls the colouring scheme of the syntax ...

Hmn actually this causes another problem.

If I output to PDF and I don't have a master stylesheet enabled, the whole stylesheet is disabled.

Now what do I do, I can't apply a stylesheet to a Page Layout, only to a Master Page!

Dave,

I think I know what you mean, that the styles are added by my additional stylesheet. The styles did work, the import was fine, I guess I just wasn't expecting Flare to add a bunch of <div> classes at the top. That was a wrong assumption on my part though.

I tried removing the default ...

Dave,

Yes you're right, I'm using @import, not @include. Oops. I'm currently on Flare 6.1, by the way.

Perhaps it has something to do with the actual CSS that's in the included stylesheet. I tried in a new, blank project (the KnowledgeBase example project) and it does precisely the same thing. I'm ...

Hello,

I would like to know if there is any way to include a second stylesheet in the WebHelp output. That is, I have a secondary stylesheet that I do not want to integrate in the main Styles.CSS, I have multiple projects using the same main stylesheet, but not the same secondary stylesheet. This ...

Hi all,

Still me with the single-project, 8 output dilemma. This time my question isn't about conditions, but rather about variables. I noticed that there is a system variable called "SourceFile" which would be really useful for me - reason being that some of our pages don't actually have any ...

Andrew, you're a life saver. You put it as no one had before, and it's exactly what I needed realize:

The only reason to use the "include" option is if the part you want to include also has an excluded condition applied to it.

I was always checking the "include" on my output, and I shouldn't ...

Hi Andrew,

You may have given me something to work with, let me test the theory.

Hey all,

I'm probably going to have to call tech support on this one, but just in case, I'm going to ask here in case someone has run into this sort of problem before. This is more or less in reference to this post , which turned out to be a misinterpretation on my part.

Our plan is to convert our ...

I'm fairly proud of my own, which took me (alone) about a month to write from scratch for a brand new software (which, incidentally, only took 3 months to build by our dev. team). The theme was kept as-is due to time constraints, but the colours fit with the software anyway so it's not that big of a ...

Hey all,

I'm having some issues getting CVS plugins to work in Flare v6.0. I'm on XP 32-bits, and I tried both TamTam and Igloo. Both seemed to connect correctly to the repository, connect to the module, and Igloo even copied the files locally without any problem. But I'm trying to create the ...

Thanks again Nita.

Most of what I would have to do is repetitive tasks - and I don't do repetitive tasks. It's not that I don't want to, it's that I tend to devise some automated processes that will do them for me. As my programmer friend would put it: I spend 2 hours doing a script that will save ...

Thanks for the tips Nita.

I am, actually, starting with a relatively small project. That is, a 30-page user guide for a simple, "user-friendly" software (though if it was that user friendly, it wouldn't need a manual, right? :P ).

The next step on will be to convert our existing documentation (7 ...

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Nita, thanks. That's exactly what it was (why I chose the only page that didn't output is beyond me)...

I'm still a bit frustrated though - I got it working, but only thanks to this great community - the software was absolutely no help at all. No warnings, no indications whatsoever of what was ...