Manula Changelog: What's New in the Manula software (Page 8)

It is now possible to use different size for the topic titles in the PDF, depending on the topic level.

Use the following Custom CSS to tweak the sizes of the topic titles based on their “toc level”:

#topic-body .pdf-topic-level-1 h1.topic-header {
border-bottom: 10px solid #FF0000;
font-size: 32px;
color: #FF0000;
}
#topic-body .pdf-topic-level-2 h1.topic-header {
border-bottom: 5px solid #0000FF;
font-size: 26px;
color: #0000FF;
}
#topic-body .pdf-topic-level-3 h1.topic-header {
border-bottom: 3px solid #00FF00;
font-size: 20px;
color: #00FF00;
}
#topic-body .pdf-topic-level-4 h1.topic-header {
border-bottom: 1px solid #808080;
font-size: 14px;
color: #808080;
}

Now available, a new “square” CSS class for turning your bullets into squares.

Here’s how to make a specific set of bullets use square bullets:

* item 1
* item 2
**(square) item 2.1
** item 2.2
** item 2.3
* item 3

(in the above example, the 2nd level set is made square).

So basically, you set the (square) class on the first bullet in a set.

In some case, users wanted more control over page breaks in the PDF output.
So we implemented a special “page-break” CSS class that can be set to paragraphs, forcing a page break before the paragraph.

To use it:

p(page-break). Paragraph body text, just proceed as you normally would, nothing to see here.

In some cases, collapsing then expanding a topic in the Table of Contents could cause an “overlapping text” display problem.
This happened primarily after having dragged a topic to a new location.

Fixed now!

When using images in tables, this could create problems in the PDF output, that is, the images not scaling properly to fit the table width.

This scaling can now be corrected by setting a CSS class “table-wide” to your table, by inserting this line before the table contents:

table(table-wide).

If you have a LOT of topics in your manual, this will make your editing live easier: the Table of Contents in the editor now remembers the expanded/collapsed status of each entry in the ToC.
In other words, collapse a top-level topic once and it will stay closed, which will save you a lot of scrolling around.

Live manuals with long company names and/or manual names could cause the top bar to become double height, especially on smaller screens. Not a problem by itself, but the double height bar overlapped the topic title, making it unreadable.

After today’s tweak, the top bar now nicely pushes the content down, leaving everything visible.

Today we made a minor change to the styling of the Info and Warning boxes, making them a bit tighter, with less spacing around the icon on the left:

At the same time, we fixed a problem in the styling of these boxes in the PDF version. These now have the same look as the online manuals.

It appears the Discard Draft button did not ask for confirmation before actually discarding the draft.
Now it does! Better safe than sorry!

Another performance improvement for the live manuals.
We found that topics including images experienced a slight delay before they started loading. I won’t bother you with the details, but it was related to fetching the image sizes.

Our system now caches this information, making the loading of image-heavy topics much faster.