Advanced Features in MadCap Flare 10

By Neil Perlin

MadCap Flare is one of the leading help authoring tools on the market. Its features range from straightforward ones used to create topics, to an almost overwhelmingly powerful stylesheet editor, to features like support for responsive design, HTML5, and the DOCTYPE that have strategic implications and may be unfamiliar to many help authors. As useful as these features are, they can also be confusing, especially for authors who are self-taught and find themselves swamped with unfamiliar or advanced options.This book addresses forty-one of these often unfamiliar or advanced options. The book is based on questions that accumulated during nine years of consulting and training as a MadCap-certified Flare trainer and consultant (and almost twenty more working with help and web authoring tools and coding before Flare). The book covers:* Responsive design (new in this edition)* Slideshows (new in this edition)* Conditional build tags (new in this edition)* Creating unnumbered "continuation" paragraph styles for use in bulleted lists (new in this edition)* Auto-generated table of contents and index proxies for print output (new in this edition)* Going "mobile" and what that means* The DOCTYPE specification and its relationship to strict vs. quirks modes in browsers* Strategic impact of HTML5* Float feature for image positioning* Master pages vs. page layouts* That mysterious "unbind" feature* The effect of the source styles options when importing Word documents* And more...Each discussion stands alone, so you can just scan the book to see what looks useful.Neil Perlin, president of Hyper/Word Services, is an internationally recognized consultant in online and mobile information design and development. He provides training, consulting, and development services for companies ranging from Fortune 100 to startups, and is a certified consultant and instructor for MadCap Flare, MadCap Mimic, Adobe RoboHelp, and Viziapps. He is the author of Essentials of MadCap Mimic 6, two earlier versions of this book for Flare 8 and 9, and Creating Mobile Apps Without Coding. You can reach him at nperlin@nperlin.cnc.net, www.hyperword.com.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1499518188
• ISBN13: 9781499518184
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"