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obligated to modify your behavior some to work with the tool and its design.

How do spaces cause line breaks in your html output? You need a br tag for
that.

As far as I can tell, Flare is not designed to create uber-efficient HTML.
It's designed to help you efficiently create HTML-based help output. In that
regard, there's going to be stray tags, yes.

I spend more time
> searching my help files for pseudo-spaces and other "added formatting"
> than
> I do any other single task outside of the initial writing.


I am not sure what you mean by pseudo-spaces. HTML displays only one space
in a row, except for nbsps. Spaces in HTML don't cause line breaks, brs do.
What did MadCap support say.

Personally, I would not touch a new MadCap product with a ten-foot pole. In
> particular, I would not touch a MadCap product that involved such delicate
> processes as image manipulation, document design, and fonts with a
> 10,000-foot pole.


How did Flare cause font problems? You didn't discuss that.
How did Flare cause image problems? You didn't discuss that.


In other words, yes, MadCap does appear to be on the cusp of capturing the
> documentation market.


How do you jump to that conclusion. They compete neither with Word nor
FrameMaker, et al.

But that scares me. MadCap has proven itself to be
> unstable, mediocre, and disappointing. That being said, I do believe that
> MadCap will improve. It has to if it wants to be here next year. I do
> think
> that MadCap has the potential of being the future of technical writing.
> BUT
> IT IS NOT THE PRESENT!


You are aware it's a version 1 product, right? I mean, have you used version
1 products before? Which?

And it has a very long road to walk before it ever
> makes it there. I personally will never buy a MadCap product on its
> initial
> release. I'll wait for version 2. I also actively advocate against that
> move. I see no reason to waste my time on these bugs and problems when I
> have access to a wide variety of stable, functional products at a fraction
> of the MadCap pricing.


Like what? What online help tool do you propose functions at a fraction of
the MadCap pricing?

There, the gauntlet has been thrown. Go ahead and tell me I'm an idiot,


Contact MadCap for technical support. The rant is too unstructured,
meandering, and vague to be of any use (other than to make you feel better).
For all I know, you might sell WWP, RH, D2H, AIT ....

T.

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