Bizarre issue with the first letter of H1s

[Jess77]

I am having the oddest problem. The first letter of each Heading 1:

• appears larger than the rest of the letters; almost as if I selected smallcaps (which I did not)

• has a line above and below it

• cannot be deleted in the XML Editor (I can delete it in the Text Editor)

• when selected in the XML Editor selects all the text in the topic

FirstLetterofH1.png

This just started happening the other day. I don't see anything odd in the code. Any ideas?

So far it's not affecting the output; the H1s look totally normal in the output. I'm fine with leaving it this way; I just want to make sure that this is not an indication of some deeper problem in my project that could make the compiler blow up at some point.

Thanks!

Follow-Up: I just noticed that the first letter in the breadcrumb proxy above the H1 is missing. It says "ou are here."

ouarehere.png

I have checked the stylesheet and the "Y" is there. I have also checked the master page and the proxy appears about a millimeter above the HTML block, but the code looks fine. Could these two be related?

[Lydia]

If you cannot delete it, this sounds like some autogenerated stuff. Do you use autonumbers or such?

[Jess77]

I don't use auto-generated anything in the H1 style. Could it be coming from the TOC?

[Jess77]

I have narrowed this down to a corrupted TOC. Does anyone have any troubleshooting suggestions?

[docudramaqueen]

Corrupted TOC in Flare? Can you just rebuild it?

[Lydia]

So, if you remove the TOC from your project (move it to somewhere else or make a backup), your topics look fine again?
It sounds so strange the TOC has this kind of effect on topics.
What happens if you create a fresh outline TOC and make it the primary one?

[Jess77]

1. I would love to know how to rebuild a TOC. This is the first time I have ever heard this phrase. How would you do it?

2. It turned out not to be the TOC but the stylesheet. I reached out to MadCap Support and it turned out to be code that I don't ever remember putting in my stylesheet. Code that added a border around the first letter and that border blocked out the "Y" in the "You are here" breadcrumb prefix.

OffendingCode.png

Thanks for all your help!

Edit: For those of you "in the know," this is called a clipping issue.