PDF output: A few nits

[chuck_agari]

I have my PDF output nearly the way I wanted it. I finally learned that the best way to put title and contents pages nicely was to create a separate page layout.

But a couple of things I can't figure out.

ON the title page, one of the longer words in the title keep hyphenating. I have the style in the CSS--in the media: print section no less--very explicit about this:

p.ManualTitle2
{
color: #f68d39;
font-family: 'Open Sans';
font-size: 24pt;
font-weight: 700;
line-height: 0;
margin-top: 0.5in;
margin-bottom: 0.25;
margin-left: 0.5in;
margin-right: 0.5in;
margin-top: 0;
hyphens: none;
}

I'm wondering if it's because the title is entirely a variable. Do I have to workaround this by not using a variable?

In the header frame of the normal page layout, which I'm using for most of the body pages, I used the one from the left page. It has a chapter variable on the left. What I'd like to do is have the heading that was used in the chapter on the right. But I can't figure out how to left align the chapter number and right align the chapter title content, all on the same line. I tried splitting the header into 2 columns, but I couldn't figure out how to make that work. I thought I read something about inserting a table, but I see no way to do that in the text editor of the header. Any guidance?

Finally, the page number seems to be a little bit off center in the footer. When I added the "normal" page, its default was a left (or right, I forget) page with asymmetric margins. I changed the page margins and dragged the header and footer frames to resize them and match the body frame margins. In the footer's case, I extended the right side by 0.5in, and it looks like the centered page number got dragged over just a bit too. In the frame properties, the text alignment is center, and when I edit the frame text, it looks like there are no extraneous characters around the page number variable. Any suggestions?

[Nita Beck]

For the first issue, use mc-hyphenate: never;

I need to think harder about the other issues when I have more time. (Sorry)

[chuck_agari]

For the first issue, use mc-hyphenate: never;

This worked, but I wonder why I need the non-standard, MadCap-specific code in my CSS? Why does Flare not honor the "proper" CSS that is supposed to do the same thing?

[Psider]

This worked, but I wonder why I need the non-standard, MadCap-specific code in my CSS? Why does Flare not honor the "proper" CSS that is supposed to do the same thing?

It might be a pdf thing that Adobe doesn't support. But only Madcap and Adobe would know.

[ajturnersurrey]

The way to go with your header is using a table.
Here is an example from one of my footers.

footer%20example.png

Use f2 to see your header frame contents box
You can then use the Table tab from the application as normal, and pick Insert Table, choosing 1 row x 2 cols. Set the table width to 100%
In my left page example: I have the Chapter number and name in the left cell, wrapped in a p.footer style defined in css to justify left, and a page number in the right cell, wrapped in a p.footer-right style defined in css to justify right. My right page is then set up with them the other way around.


Hope this helps.