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Looks like you are using autonumbering on your chapters, probably through a chapter class on the H1 elements for the topics that start paragraphs. While you are working to pin down the issue you can do this: create three sections of your stylesheet and then make changes in different sections to see ...

The proxy would still show up. You just probably wouldn't have seen any styles set for it. But your stylesheet is called later in the process than the Madcap Blaze style sheet, so you can set a setting in your stylesheet that will override what is in MadCap Blaze's style sheet. So if you found the p...

Oh, it supports them. It just supports them through the topic toolbar. Here's what you do: you edit the masterpage that contains your <bodyproxy> element, and above (or below, or both, (we won't judge)) the <bodyproxy> insert a Topic Toolbar proxy. You can style this toolbar proxy by creating a spec...

This is where copy/paste is your friend. Put the symbol in a document, then copy and paste it into your variable definition.

Once you've got the <p> tag in the cell, you can add all kinds of content, lists, etc. If you don't have the <p> tag in the cell, just press enter. The p tag will be added automatically. Now press backspace, and you're back on the first line, but the <p> tags stays. Now, right click on the p block i...

When you look at the XML source of the target file, you see the Variables section that you described. If you remove all contents from the variables section and just leave this: <Variables></Variables> That should solve your problem. What happens is this: If there is a variable set in a target, that ...

Not in Flare itself. At our company, we use a tool called Jenkins that has jobs created. One job we have watches our GIT repository for changes. Once a change is detected, it automatically connects to a server with MadCap Flare installed, and runs the build. Then the Jenkins job copies the output fi...

I totally agree with you. This is not solely a MadCap issue. This is something Adobe changed that affected a lot of vendors (including Salesforce, for example). My point is only that I hope MadCap takes the opportunity to fix whatever font encoding is being done incorrectly so that, if in the future...

I think the feature you need is actually snippet conditions. You can read about this in the help , but here is the overall workflow: 1. Create a new Condition Tag Set for Snippet Conditions, and create conditions for each version of the snippet you need. 2. Create the snippet. Use the conditions to ...

You could set up a nightly scheduled build, and then run a post-build script that would move the file to the correct location to publish it for you.

That said, MadCap Flare is apparently embedding the font incorrectly. If the font were embedded correctly by Flare's PDF engine, this wouldn't be an issue. So I hope MadCap is also looking at this for a fix from their side, so if Adobe decides again at some point to strictly enforce font encoding, t...

At least now I have something I can do when customers start running into this. Be aware, this is not something customers can do themselves, unless they have Adobe Acrobat. (Reader can't do this.) If you have customers that are running into the issue, my suggestion would be to have them open the PDF...

Here is the conversation I had with Adobe today:

I don't have an answer. Just a +1. We need a Linux-friendly solution. Elasticsearch as a general concept, works on Linux. Flare did something to make it so it doesn't work with Flare projects on Linux. So that is a bummer. Make sure you submit a feature request. The more of us who request a feature,...

Yes. Basically, top level "books" in your PDF output will have the settings for H1 applied. Next-level-down books/topics will have the settings for H2 applied. Next-level-down books/topics will have the settings for H3 applied, and so on. So it's not just adjusting the font size. It's actu...

Flare is not designed to do this. However, I suppose if there is a will, there is a way. When you generate output, content that has conditions applied to it has an attribute applied to the tag similar to the following: <div class="note" data-mc-conditions="Default.ScreenOnly"> Co...

We have a separate topic toolbar at the bottom of our master page, just for this. The topic toolbar only has the previous and next buttons. We still have the normal topic tool bar at the top of our topics. So you get something like this: https://content.screencast.com/users/paul.pehrson/folders/Snag...

So I opened the Temporary output file in the Output folder for a PDF target that I just built, and I searched for CSS style sheets. This is what I came up with: https://content.screencast.com/users/paul.pehrson/folders/Snagit/media/d277c05f-7a6d-48b7-b71d-08b0db6e0027/06.19.2019-20.06.png The only s...

There are a bunch. Open the following location in Windows Explorer and then do a search for *.css:

C:\Program Files\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare 15\Flare.app\Resources\WebHelp2

I have this trouble as well. I've never found a solution for it. The problem is that the background of the block extends all the way to the container. It is just the text that wraps, not the whole block that wraps. So you get this: https://content.screencast.com/users/paul.pehrson/folders/Snagit/med...

What you have to realize is that the content in that topic is inside an iframe. So what you need your script to do is to change the source of the iframe window. But the button is outside the iframe, so "self" is the page it is on, which is to say the whole page, not just the space the cont...

Have you checked with Mattias to see if he has any plans to create an export to markdown feature? It could work on a topic level, or you could apply it to a whole folder and it would output markdown files for all files in the folder, in the same structure they were created in. That is a plugin I thi...

The styles that appear are based on the tag your cursor is in. So if you have a <p> inside the <td> element, then you will see all your paragraph styles. If you have just a <td> with no paragraph, then you'll just see styles that can be applied to the <td> element (which would basically be any class...

No. You would have one style for code, and another style for indent. They are independent. So you might have this: p.code { font-family:monospace; background-color:gray; } div.indent { margin-left: 20px; } Now when you want to indent anything, an image, or a paragraph or a table or whatever, you jus...

yeah. Flare search and punctuation are not really compatible. That has been a long-standing issue.