tough stuff for the real stuff - advanced puzzlers to try

[DurtyMat]

if i remember correctly the images i used for the corners didn't display properly. i will try to test it again in a chm and post the actual results.

ps - i am trying to move away from chm files @ work, so it will probably be tested sometime this weekend.

[MC Hammer]

if i remember correctly the images i used for the corners didn't display properly. i will try to test it again in a chm and post the actual results.

ps - i am trying to move away from chm files @ work, so it will probably be tested sometime this weekend.

Hi there, thanks and no worries, please just test if you have time to do so
I would like to move away from CHMs as well, but have not been successful so far.

[DurtyMat]

if i remember correctly the images i used for the corners didn't display properly. i will try to test it again in a chm and post the actual results.

ps - i am trying to move away from chm files @ work, so it will probably be tested sometime this weekend.

Hi there, thanks and no worries, please just test if you have time to do so
I would like to move away from CHMs as well, but have not been successful so far.[/quote

the chm vs web help fight wasnt an easy one. we got kind of lucky and based on some of the developments in our products a webhelp based help system kind of makes sense.

[forfear]

I did that by applying a style class to those items in the TOC. Set up a class for TocEntry in the skin, then open the TOC item's properties Basic tab and choose the Style class.

The "In this section" box is the miniTOC, not a div, so I set the width (as a %) for MadCap|miniTocProxy. The "See also" box below that is a div in the topic, with the same formatting as the miniTOC.

I am trying to achieve the lovely, 'In this section' techique used by Dave Lee?

For some reason this doesn't work for me anymore. it used to.
What's wrong here?

xcapt_.png

i used to be able to figure this out...now i can't as well as i used to.

[NorthEast]

It depends what you mean by it doesn't work; is there no miniTOC at all, or is it displaying a miniTOC but not with the formatting you expected?

I am trying to achieve the lovely, 'In this section' techique used by Dave Lee?

I read that with Australian Question Intonation :o)

[forfear]

xcapt_1.png

i am sure i've missed out something but just don't know what it is. btw, dave, i am still impressed by that sample help output...

it really pushes all my skills up a notch just trying to hack work out parts of how they were put together. Nice!

[NorthEast]

Ah, yes, I just remembered there was a problem with that bit.

The problem is that Flare doesn't seem to carry through the autonumber properties you set for the MadCap|miniTocProxy style into the output. In the output, the miniTOC is a div tag - div.MCMiniTocBox, or if you use a class it'd be div.MCMiniTocBox_class. You need to add that to your stylesheet, and include the properties for the autonumber.

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div.MCMiniTocBox
{
	mc-auto-number-format: 'In this section';
}

[DurtyMat]

forfear, im curious what your output looks like as well.

[forfear]

forfear, im curious what your output looks like as well.

I am experimenting with Segoe UI as a standard font in all my deliverables. Its a Windows XP machine, but i guess Segoe UI must have gotten downloaded with Windows Live or some service packs.

I am trying to keep the number of classes that I created down to a bare minimum.

[forfear]

This one is interesting.
http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2008/w ... states.pdf

its done with HTML and CSS (a topic from Wikipedia), only thing its done via a different source renderer.

With Flare, as a print exercise of skills, I am examining it to see how I could possible achieve most of what's been done.

prince.jpg

Challenges:
How do you manage bibliographical entries?
For HATTs, its not the most important thing, but for professional print outputs, i think its a good thing to have.

Also how would you create that last page with copyright boilerplate text sunk to the bottom of a page, some sort of div positioning?

How do you create a heading title that spans beyond two columns - perhaps i could do the same, with a separate Frame for 'First pages'

Column layouts shouldn't be a problem.