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In older versions of Flare, the cross reference functionality was limited by a bug that wouldn’t show variables in the cross reference text. You can now select multiple stylesheets, and determine the order they are read, for individual topics or for the entire project. Second, a cross reference understands where the target topic is contextually, and in printed output will generate text to direct the reader to the correct page.

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First a Flare cross reference always shows the heading (or text) of the paragraph that it is linked to, so even if you update the title of the target file, it is updated in all cross references to that title. A cross reference differs from a link in some important ways. In Flare, a cross reference is similar to a link, in that it allows you to point to a different topic in your project. This is really more of a bug fix than a new feature, but it is a big enhancement in my opinion. If you are importing styles from a parent project and you want to override a specific style, you can now create a stylesheet that is local to this project, and call it after you call the imported stylesheet, giving you total control over how style settings cascade to show what you want. If you set it at the project level, you couldn’t override it for a single topic.įlare 12 allows you to select multiple stylesheets for the project and for individual topics. If you set it at the topic level, then you’d have to link a stylesheet to all new topics and all new snippets. If you only have one stylesheet, this isn’t a big deal, but if you are working with multiple stylesheets (either because you are importing a stylesheet from a parent project, or because you have an advanced use case for using multiple stylesheets), it becomes difficult. In older versions of Flare, you could either choose the stylesheet at the project level, or at the individual topic level. This may seem like a simple feature, but it solves a real problem that I continue to see people encounter. With this new side-by-side display of media types, Flare users won’t encounter this trouble anymore. In every Flare training class I’ve given, I warn students that they would inevitably make the mistake of editing the wrong media section, and would be frustrated because the intended change wasn’t implemented. The new advanced style sheet editor is a huge leap forward. The bottom box shows you information about the property setting you have selected, giving you a definition, and some of the options available for that property. The top one allows you to make comments related to a specific style, so you can document as you go, explaining why you have multiple classes of the P element, for example, and how you expect these to be used. In the bottom left corner of Figure 1 you can also see two new features.

Now the Flare interface will let you create media queries and see their settings as a unique media. In older versions of Flare, I would manually add a media query, and then manually adjust the settings in an external text editor. This allows you to have different CSS settings depending on the user’s display width, automatically adjusting, for example, between desktop, tablet, and phone settings. Other editor enhancements include the ability to see media query sections in the stylesheet. The new editor allows you to see multiple media types simultaneously, helping you avoid making changes to the wrong media section. As you scroll through the settings, all columns stay in sync, so you can easily see how a setting is different in various media sections. As you can see in Figure 1, the new editor shows you multiple media types as columns, and you can view as many (or as few) columns as you want at a time. Hands down, my favorite new feature in Flare 12 is the Advanced Stylesheet editor. To honor the 12th major release of Flare, I’ll share twelve features and enhancements I’m excited about. In this article, I’ll share my experience using a preview version of Flare 12 for a month or so before it was released to the public.

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You can go read the MadCap marketing literature if you want a full rundown of every feature and enhancement in Flare 12. As a MadCap user for almost 10 years, I’ve had a chance to see firsthand how Flare has developed over the years, and this is a release that I’m excited about.

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It’s that time of year again, and just in time for MadWorld Conference, MadCap Software has released the latest version of its authoring platform, MadCap Flare 12.

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