Lead Story
MadCap Flare V4 Preview
The team at MadCap Software has been working on the next version of Flare for several months now, and I’ve been lucky enough to be one of the beta testers who has had an early sneak-peak at what Flare 4 has to offer. Finally, after months of testing, I’m ready to share some of the [...]
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Tips and Tricks
Creating snippets from multiple blocks in Flare»
When you are writing content in Flare, you may decide that you want to re-use some content that you previously added to another topic.
We’ve discussed before how the best way to do this is to use a snippet, which essentially is a really long, formatted variable.
To do this in Flare, you create a new snippet, [...]
Training
DITA Conferene, Day 1»
Today I’m in North Carolina at the Bright Path Solutions’ DITA TechComm Conference. It is a conference dedicated to discussing DITA and other structured authoring technologies. I’m here at MadCap’s request, and I get to spend the first two days of the conference soaking in the experience and knowledge of the other attendees before turning [...]
Books
Upcoming books»
Paul is pleased to announce that he is working on two different Flare books. The first, due in the beginning of 2009 is a Frame to Flare book. (See Paul’s call for help here).
The second book is going to be an getting started guide for Flare 4 / Blaze 1. Stay tuned for more details [...]
