Thanks for your comment.

Just to clarify – in this context ‘gardener’ means a market gardener or orchadist. In the Adelaide Hills typically working about 20 acres per family, although that’s almost a thing of the past now.

Copntrolled burns are now conducted by the Departmant of the Environment (or whatever their title is this week) and/ or the Country Fire Service.

The problem is that there are 2 sides to any story, and when both sides are passionate about the issue a third party needs to arbitrate. At the moment, the trend in Australia (and I guess the world) is to err on the side of the environment.

That’s fine, except that we need balanced input and the environmental lobby seems not to understand the need for balance.

So, to conduct a burnoff, which up to a few years ago any landholder could do, you now have to undertake environmental impact and other studies. Even to volunteers in the CFS (who have their own properties to prepare for summer) this can be so time consuming that it gets put in the too hard basket.

Off course, while this is happening the fuel load is increasing. And, to make things worse, weed species are over-running the native vegetation.

So, while some small areas of vegetation get a hazard reduction burn, large areas continue to increase in potential to become part of a large fire.

You are right about vegetation recovery. There’s a flower called the Adelaide Hills Diasy, beautiful little white flowers now grown commercially. It used to be known as fire weed because it used to grow in profusion on the site of old fires, before other vegetation could get a hold. Its hardly seen in the wild any more.

Another interesting issue is roadside clearing – vegetation used to be cleared from the roadside. From a plane you could clearly see all the roads. Now the canopy covers the roads, meaning their value as a firebreak is greatly diminished…

Anyway, here’s my problem. I used the Stylesheet editor to make some font family and font size changes to a few paragraph styles. But when I previewed topics, the changes were not reflected.

One thing that was confusing was the confirmation dialog with four options when I went to save my changes to the style, sheet. If you don’t “break” the connection to the source document, you get this confirmation dialog every time you save changes to the style sheet, which is a pain. I figured if I “broke” the connection, but then reimported the FM source and respecified the style sheet, the new settings would take effect; but not so.

So, what is the correct way to make edits to a style sheet and then make those changes take effect and show up in the Topic previews? Much thanks for any guidance you can provide.
- Bernie Meyer

Just right-click the ol/ul block in the tag bar (on the right side of the page), choose Type and select any one of the presented list types (bullets, numbered, Lower-alpha, …).

The only way I can get it to work is to open the topic in a text editor (I use Notepad++) and clean up the code by hand.

You could try the Flare user’s forum – there are lots of people doing all sorts of things and they might have a more elegant solution!

I must admit I learned about it on the Flare forum. Lisa, in particular, is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to css. I just put it all together.