Glossary styles

This forum is for all Flare issues related to styles, stylesheets and XML.
Post Reply
ajpeck123
Propeller Head
Posts: 37
Joined: Tue Mar 07, 2017 6:01 am

Glossary styles

Post by ajpeck123 »

Hi everyone,

First, a few parameters:
Using Flare 2017 r3 on Windows 10
Output = PDF (always, when the glossary is included as a separate file)

I've finally finished converting a FM book to Flare, and the last thing I've checked is the glossary.
In the original PDF (from FrameMaker), the Glossary didn't even cover 2 sides of A4. In the PDF generated from Flare, it's more than double that... because it seems to be done as a description/definition list. I can't see the code behind the proxy, but the output is similar to what I'd see if I did:

<dl>
<dt>Term1</dt>
<dd>Definition1</dd>

<dt>Term2</dt>
<dd>Definition2</dd>
</dl>


See "Output.png" (below) for a visual representation.
Output.png
Ideally, I want something looking more like the lower part of Output.png, but if I'm right about the way the glossary is being built, that may not be possible. It's just a LOT of empty space, as although my definitions are slightly longer than the ones in my examples, they very rarely fill a line!


Any ideas, or is this just a restiction of HTML/Flare?

Thanks in advance,

Alison
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Alison
Lone technical author - Flare user since March 2017
Currently using Flare 2020
Post Reply