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Edit Post #35903 Post edited:
updated link
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assorted minor cleanup
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updated link
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Edit Post #281003 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Answer A: How do we prevent Madcap Flare from injecting non-breaking spaces in our documentation?
It turns out that "Global" doesn't mean global in Flare. We haven't figured out what it actually means, but to fix this you have to select "XML Editor" from the drop-down menu shown in the screen shot and then change it there. I changed it in both to be safe, and our team is no longer getting unw...
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Comment Post #281002 I beat my head against this for a while so when I finally found it I decided to ask and answer here.
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Edit Post #281002 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Question How do we prevent Madcap Flare from injecting non-breaking spaces in our documentation?
We use Madcap Flare for our documentation, and it has an annoying property: if you happen to have the shift key down when you type a space, it inserts a non-breaking space (`&#160;`). Our documentation covers SQL, so things like `CREATE TABLE` are common and too often come out as `CREATE&#160;TABLE`...
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over 3 years ago
Edit Post #280765 Initial revision almost 4 years ago
Answer A: How do we get Flare to stop modifying .gitignore?
I received a response from Flare's technical support. There was a bug in Flare's git integration in some older versions (at least 2019r2; not sure how much farther back). This bug was fixed in Flare 2020, but the result is that if people are using mixed versions, as we are, then there's a tug of wa...
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Comment Post #280721 File shares become write-only kitchen junk drawers, in my experience -- it's easy to add stuff but harder to find and organize it, and actually *maintaining* it is even harder. Jira would be an improvement for you because of the integration with Confluence, which you're already using. For example, ...
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Edit Post #280721 Initial revision almost 4 years ago
Answer A: What are some ways to encourage team members to contribute and maintain a centralized wiki?
There's no quick or complete fix, but the following things have worked for me. Plant the seeds early First, involve those new hires. When everything is new to them, you are in a better position to plant "culture" seeds. Maybe your old-timers have gotten used to not documenting anything, but t...
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Comment Post #280651 @Olin thanks for the debugging tip! I hadn't thought of that.
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source-control is now the parent tag of git so don't need both (this question is specifically about git)
almost 4 years ago
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Edit Post #280651 Initial revision almost 4 years ago
Question How do we get Flare to stop modifying .gitignore?
We use Madcap Flare for our documentation, and the project is checked into git. (In case this matters, this is a locally-hosted git server, not GitHub.) The project uses a .gitignore file to avert commits of output files and assorted Flare byproducts that don't belong in source control. We do ...
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localized links
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Edit Post #280515 Initial revision almost 4 years ago
Answer A: Technical Writer Skill Set
Some core skills for a technical writer are: - Ability to communicate effectively in writing. - Ability to understand the subject matter (what you're documenting) from the user's perspective, including the user's needs. - Ability to understand the subject matter enough to reason about its behavi...
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Edit Post #280477 Question closed almost 4 years ago
Comment Post #280477 Hello and welcome to Writing Codidact! This question is very broad so I'm putting it on hold for now. Can you edit to describe what problems you're running into? We're much better at solving specific problems than disseminating general hints. Every situation is a little different, so please tell ...
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almost 4 years ago
Comment Post #279891 For feedback before submitting elsewhere for publication, need to consider that some publishers won't accept anything that's been "previously published". We can restrict visibility of a category to people with accounts to keep stuff out of Google, but it'd mean you wouldn't be able to usefully share...
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Edit Post #28126 Post edited:
updated link, integrated edit
about 4 years ago
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fixed link
about 4 years ago
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Comment Post #279085 Oh right; there's a separate feature request about keyboard shortcuts for editing, not yet implemented. Sorry for my confusion. Could you file a bug report on any meta about the category issue @celtschk? Thanks.
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about 4 years ago
Comment Post #279085 Oh whoops -- I thought we had a help topic about that, but I guess not. @celtschk see https://meta.codidact.com/questions/276697.
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about 4 years ago
Comment Post #279085 True, and what I do normally anyway (just type the Markdown links) -- for me that's faster than going through a GUI, because I'm almost always inserting the links as I compose. But if somebody is using keyboard shortcuts to navigate the GUI, and that works in general but not in this specific case, t...
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about 4 years ago
Comment Post #279078 Welcome back! It's good to see you here again.
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about 4 years ago
Edit Post #279085 Initial revision about 4 years ago
Answer A: Finishing link entry with enter sends the post instead
That's a bug, yes. :-( Thanks for the report. As a workaround, if you choose[^1] the "insert" button instead of using "enter", it inserts the link into the markdown and puts you back in the editor. (I don't know if we have good-enough support for keyboard-only users to choose that button. If yo...
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Comment Post #279079 Ooh, looking to the time *before* ubiquitous mice for hints -- nice!
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Edit Post #279019 Initial revision about 4 years ago