Oops, sorry, misread the original question. Mever mind...
-FR > Tom De Rouck asked: > > > In Framemaker 8.0p277, does anyone know if it is possible to apply > > conditional text to a part of the text in an index marker? > > I want some of the text only to display in my online help version, so I > > have a condition "PDF" and one "online-only". > > > No, it is not possible to apply a condition tag within a variable's value. > You can only apply conditions once the content appears in the document flow. > For what you want to do, there are two approaches you could take, one of > which requires a slightly more complicated process when preparing to publish > to a given medium and the other of which requires more work up-front and > probably will be harder to maintain on an ongoing basis. > > The first approach would be to use one variable name, but to redefine its > value for the appropriate medium as you prepare to publish by importing > variable values from a speical template file. I have used this approach many > times and it works well. And it only adds one step to the preparation for > publishing. > > The second approach would be to define two different variable names with the > different medium-specific content, and to insert both variables tagged with > the appropriate text conditions instead of inserting just the single variable > name. The advantage of this is that you would only have to worry about > setting up the proper conditional text show/hide rules at publishing time, > but the downside is that you must take some steps to ensure that the > conditionalized pair of variables always get inserted together and that > neither of them ever gets deleted independent of the other. > > -Fred Ridder > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as docu...@hotmail.com. > > Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/docudoc%40hotmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
