MadCap Software Forums

I don't have to do any translations (thank goodness), so I'm probably not the best one to answer this, but just based on what you've written, I would suggest separate stylesheets, with a slight caveat. I would have one "base" stylesheet that defines all your base styles and appearances, in...

Within the same project or between projects? It's been awhile since I've done this, but I believe you can still open two files side-by-side by docking one in the left or right pane. If they're in different projects, then you can open two instances of Flare and compare them side by side.

They aren't. When you generate an output, the variable is converted to actual text. You should create a second output (target) and in that target file, specify the new value for the variables. When that new target is generated, the value you specified in the target is what is inserted into the new o...

I would consider that a bug then. You can submit bug reports at http://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx.

First, how have you tried the various formats? By creating a style, setting that attribute, and then applying that style that you want to appear on the next page? Or were you trying an inline style or what? Second, how much or what type of content follows or precedes that paragraph? I don't know wha...

I'm not quite sure what you're asking. The Chapter break change occurs on the TOC entry you set it on. You could a Chapter break on every TOC, if you wanted. If you have multiple page types in your page layout, then it will automatically switch between those page types, depending on what type they a...

You can right-click on the page layout in the Project Organizer and choose the option to open it in the Internal Text Editor or Notepad or what-have-you. I don't think you can (or want) to attach a stylesheet to your page layout, but it will use your topic stylesheet regardless. If you have show blo...

Ok, I've been away from Flare for quite awhile, but as I recall, index terms are stored in the topics, so if your topic is included in the output and you didn't condition out the term itself, then it will be included. I can't remember if I've ever tried to condition an index term in a topic, but I'v...

None of those terms appear in the docs linked in this target according to the Index window, and the target does not have an index. I'm not sure what you mean by the "target does not have an index". Do you mean you don't have a topic containing the indexProxy included in that target's outp...

I think I'd first check the target file assigned as the primary target and check all its settings to make sure it's pointing to masterpage, master page, stylesheets, etc., in this new project's location instead of trying to go back to the original project's location. Check the publishing options, to...

Since it says "Alias of X", I'm wondering if it's talking instead about the alias file, which would be used for calling to a help topic from within your application. Are you using an alias file? Could you have an entry in that alias file pointing to a topic that you've conditioned out of t...

Yes, I'm trying to exclude some header files from the HTML5 output. I applied the conditional tag to the file. The file itself simply lists several #DEFINE lines of code. No body tags to speak of. Thanks! Is this a condition tag that you've been using for the same output? That is, have you confirme...

When it's building the output, you should be able to see the files it's working on as it's building the output. Is the error occurring every time while working on a specific topic? If so, try opening the topic and see if Flare throws up a message error at that point that will hopefully give you an i...

I don't have Flare open at the moment, but if you go into edit or create a new cross-reference, it will show you the list of possible parameters and will show you examples of the resulting format. I think what you want is paratext or something similar. You might need to create a new xref format if t...

We actually just upgraded to SolidWorks 2014 and I noticed the Composer icon, but I don't actually use SolidWorks so I don't know anything about that program, but now I'm curious about it. What's your thought on using it? Having it pull in info from a Flare output or having Flare pull in info from S...

For the example you wrote, use variables. The recommended method is to put placeholder text in the variable value in the project (e.g., set variable called ProductName to have a value of ReplaceProductName). Then in each target, you modify the value of that variable in the target , not in the projec...

By any chance did you change your styles and your updated stylesheet isn't for some reason isn't being uploaded to the published location? Likewise, the image and topic if either of them was recently updated?

I'm just thinking out loud here (so to speak), but I wonder if you could apply a z-index to the heading so that it lays under/over the columns? You would also need to have a paragraph style with a margin-top value high enough to keep the text away from the heading. I don't think z-index is supporte...

When the output is built, the two-column content immediately follows the heading text. To the end user they appear to be one topic. This idea doesn't sound quite right - a single page in the output can't use/merge two different page layouts. I didn't open my project in Flare, I just looked at the f...

I didn't think the + selector was CSS3 -- seems like that's been around a lot longer, but earlier versions of Flare didn't play with it well. Of course, CSS3 has probably been around longer than I think and it was just slow to be adopted, so I heard of the + selector a long time before browsers or F...

I have a 2-columns body frame in my page layout. I would like my h1 to span across the two columns. Is it possible? Is there a CSS property to do that? You'd have to create two topics. One is set to use the normal one-column page layout and the topic contains just your heading text. The second topi...

I haven't used RoboHelp in years. In fact, not since Adobe sunsetted RoboHelp, then decided a year later to keep it around because MadCap came out with Flare and Adobe suddenly decided that maybe they should keep the product. That put me off Adobe with regards to RH. The fact that MadCap was started...

My issue is basically that I want less spacing between a paragraph and an image than I do between two paragraphs. First, an img is not a self-contained tag. That is, an img tag can't exist by itself, it has to be enclosed in something else (p, div, td, li, etc.). Second, if you want to control spac...

I have to say though that Flare was not very helpful in identifying the problem, because the error referred to the target topic, not the topic with the problem. Sometimes its very accommodating in opening the offending topic when you double-click on the error, but not always. If you know what the t...

Set your new target to be the master target. As long as that target is pointing to the new stylesheet, then when you edit the styles, you're editing the specified stylesheet.