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Thanks Dave. I think I had tried something similar before and was unsuccessful. But I gave it another try. First, I have this at the top of my CSS: @font-face { font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Pro Solid"; src: url(../Fonts/webfonts/fa-solid-900.ttf); } I changed my code to look like this: .no...

So this article (https://www.madcapsoftware.com/blog/2017/08/17/css-tip-creating-styled-boxes-notes-warnings-examples-tips/) has some very nice looking notes, tips, etc. Except that it uses graphic files for the icons. I'd like to figure out a way to use Font Awesome glyphs instead. I have Font Awes...

Removing the col tags did not work.

Changing the value of to both normal and nowrap did not work.

Using the overflow-wrap properly and its value of normal did not work.

Damn. Hoping for a quick fix. Have you tried setting word-break to normal? W3 schools seem to link keep-all with Chinese/ Japenese/ Korean, so it might be having a funky effect. I'd also try removing the <col /> tags. I'll try tweaking the CSS that way and see what happens, although the behavior wa...

ChoccieMuffin wrote:What is your output? Or is the screenshot from the XML Editor?

The screen shot is from the PDF.

I don't have access to Flare at the minute, so I'm going off my (becoming more and more unreliable) memory... If you select the table in the editor you should see a representation at the top of table width properties. This will tell you if someone has explicitly set the column width. Try to set it ...

I'm seeing this: force-broken_words.png I have no code anywhere that defines the width of a table column. The start of my table code is just this: <table class="agari_settings"> <col /> <col /> <thead> <tr> <th>Setting</th> <th>Description</th> </tr> </thead> Nothing in the class definitio...

I seem to remember years ago that when you do a rename in Flare, behind the scenes Flare actually deletes the old file from source control and adds a new file with the new name and it gets a "Pending Add" status rather than "Checked Out" status. This is not, I think, a "Fla...

I've hit this issue - we're using Madcap Flare 2019 with Git/Azure - and yes, it happened just after I renamed some files and then edited one. Flare seems to really hate this. P. This is why I do not bind to source control in Flare. I've never not had issues with Flare bound to source control, from...

I understand there are groups at Cisco who use Flare. If you're someone at Cisco who uses Flare, please DM me. I have some questions. Thanks.

Hey Chuck, Did you get any answers to this? I'm creating online help for a client, and rather than synchronising my whole Flare project on their git repository, I want to just push an Output folder (the results of building a target) so they can include it in their software build. Actually, I'm fail...

Who's to say MadCap doesn't monitor the forums? There's a reply from MadCap staff in this thread. I'd guess they do monitor here, but probably don't post very often because the forums aren't their support channel. Did you read the actual quote from a MadCap employee. I'd assert they do not "mo...

This is mainly monitored by our users and not MadCap employees. As opposed to places such as Slack channels and LinkedIn groups, this resource is provided by and hosted by MadCap. Product management, QA, and customer service are just some of the roles that should be monitoring these forums routinel...

Skitch/Mac - screen caps, basic annotation and highlighting
Gimp/Mac - heavy-duty editing
Paint/Windows - pixel-level editing
Capture/Windows - for more complex callouts

The first 3 are free, the latter comes with Flare

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say much of this--and not a few of the issues I've encountered over the past year--have to do with the PDF engine that MadCap chose. I think I've heard before which one they are using, but I forget which one. (GhostScript, maybe?) Using 3rd-party PDF engines is pretty...

Yeah. They didn't provide a way to implement it in part because it will depend on how you develop your micro content, and how you're developing your product. The documentation on how to do this is definitely lacking, but it is possible to do---we're doing it in one of our products. But you're right...

Well, here's the thing: field-level help has been part of what we develop pretty much ever since we've documented software that has fields. And the Flare micro content guide makes mention of field-level help, but with nothing more than an asterisk saying it will require additional developer resource...

I had a bug filed against my docs. There was a typo in a command string. I found it and fixed it, but I was not able to find the typo in the PDF when I searched for it, even though I could scroll to the page and see the string was obviously there. The mis-typed string is "nptstat" (it shou...

Unfortunately, Flare does not do this correctly when you try to do in in the XML Editor, so anytime I need any block elements as part of a <li> element (images, tables, note and information <div>s, etc), I have to fix the code manually. Good thing I know what I'm doing in there. When you're in a li...

Well, I know that we're doing this with a JavaScript library. Thing is, it means that the content is living in the code, and that's exactly what I don't want. Heck, I've been pushing for months to get resources to merely implement online help in our web apps--and not even CSH either, just a basic li...

I'm trying to figure out if this can be done in Flare. I've found some positively ancient walkthroughs on the MadCap site (from 2102!) that show how this is done, but it shows pop-ups without all the extra Flare machinations, but still all the browser chrome. I want less, like this: pop-up_help.png ...

... When I want to add images or tables in lists, Flare often does not follow on automatically. I am often having to go into the code and "clean up" the intervening </ol><ol> tags that Flare "helpfully" adds. But this is not at all "helpful." Perhaps another example of...

Thanks Nita! That's exactly it. Y'know, though, even though I managed to overlook that setting that's _right underneath_ the "Use TOC depth for heading levels" setting, it sort of boggles the mind that when you use the latter setting and build a very specifically organized TOC that you'd n...

I use a "review" TOC to add topics to for review so I can output only review topics and attach the PDFs to Jira cards and post them to doc review Slack channels and so reviewers don't have to wade through a whole manual to find what they need to review. I want to do this: books_in_PDFs.png...

They are unnecessary in your output because you built a clean list. However, not everybody builds clean lists. Sometimes they break the list and add an image and then restart the list and continue the numbering, or break the list and throw in a table and then continue the numbering. You'd be amazed...