Default style in Flare editor?

[scap]

Is there a way to set the default style in the Flare editor? That is, the style that's defaulted to every time you press Enter to take a new line, namely <p>.

I have taken over a large project where a custom class is used for all main paragraph content, such that the XML tagging is <p class="p_1">.

It's a complete pain having to restyle everything individually every time I enter new content.

Thanks.

[doloremipsum]

Flare does have a feature that lets you set what style will be next when you press enter: https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare20 ... -Style.htm. It seems you'd have to set it on every block element in your stylesheet (although maybe you could set it on the body tag once and be done with it?)

If I were you I'd spend a bit of time to refactor the styles so that the default style is just p. Then you can run a Find-And-Replace-Elements to clear the old style out. That's what I did to get rid of a bunch of annoying styles imported from an older system (p class="bodytext" )

[Ioana_St]

It looks like your project indeed contains content imported from a different system. I recently had the same situation - a project full of p_1, p_2, span_1, etc, after an import from RoboHelp.

You may know all this, but I will explain, just in case.

This behavior is driven by the checkbox "Convert inline formatting to CSS styles" in the Import Project Wizard (at least for RH import). What it means is that if, in the original project, you had inline styling, it will get converted into a class in the new project. In my case, there were a lot of cases where we had used Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I to format text instead of using classes defined as bold or italic font.

Example:

If you had this in the original project..

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<p style="color: #000000;">My sentence</p>

...it will get converted to this in the new XML...

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<p class="p_1">My sentence</p>

...and you will have this in your new CSS

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p.p_1 {
color: #000000;
}

If you are sure that all "simple" paragraphs should look like a "p_1" paragraph, the easier way to fix this is to modify your CSS to:

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p {
color: #000000;
}

Basically, to indicate that a <p> without a class should look like the former p_1 class.

After you do this, you can clean up the project using search and replace (Find Elements):
Find: Tag = p, Class=p_1
Replace/Action: Remove Class=p_1

[scap]

It looks like your project indeed contains content imported from a different system. I recently had the same situation - a project full of p_1, p_2, span_1, etc, after an import from RoboHelp.

Oh dear lord that's explains a lot and reestablishes some lost sanity, thank you!

A previous Technical Writer didn't bother cleaning anything up after the import, the projects have dozens of spans_<number> and p_<number>! They rolled around in this mess for years

[scap]

Flare does have a feature that lets you set what style will be next when you press enter: https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare20 ... -Style.htm. It seems you'd have to set it on every block element in your stylesheet (although maybe you could set it on the body tag once and be done with it?)

If I were you I'd spend a bit of time to refactor the styles so that the default style is just p. Then you can run a Find-And-Replace-Elements to clear the old style out. That's what I did to get rid of a bunch of annoying styles imported from an older system (p class="bodytext" )

Thanks for that tip from the Flare help, interesting!

I'm probably going to scrub the decks and start with a new CSS afresh.