First Thoughts on MadCap Flare

[Amy Gale <amyg -at- grammatech -dot- com>]

To begin: I want to like MadCap Flare. My company wants to like MadCap 
Flare. If it fixes the problems we are having with RH, we will be happy 
happy people.

But here are my first impressions:

1) I couldn't import my test RH project until I stripped out all the 
instances of
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html">
This is not a great thing to be unable to cope with!

2) It did one of the things that I find most profoundly unlovable about 
RH: rewrote my CSS
to something that is both technically ugly and nonequivalent. Minus a 
zillion points.

3) Some weirdness happened with internal anchors. For example (links and 
text obfuscated to protect the paranoid)

<a name="w" id="w">W</a> correspond to X in the <a href="Y.html">Y</a>
 <a href="Z.html">Z</a>.

became

<a name="W" id="W"></a> correspond to X in the
 <a href="Y.html">Y</a><a href="Z.html">Z</a>. <MadCap:snippetBlock 
src="Resources\Snippets\myfooter.flsnp" />W

Maybe it's just me, but I would think that no matter how little you 
trust your users, you can safely assume that nobody actually wants their 
anchor text de-anchored and moved to beneath the document footer. Or to 
have spaces between words in the text removed.

Maybe there are solutions to these things. I haven't given  up hope. But 
I'm no longer as excited as I was this morning when I first tried to 
download.

*sniff*

A




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