Ulrike Forsberg wrote: > My objection to building two books is the risk of producing a wrong > manual because I forgot that I had an extra book for one of the manuals > (you all know that things can get rather hectic close to a deadline). > What I have done until now for the 3 products is that I changed the > variables and the conditional text settings to produce the specific > manual. The cover pages are added to the pdf file, they are done in a > different program, so no advantage here for working with three books. > Two books for 3 manuals will be the solution, and I have to note down in > my procedure that there is a separate book for one of the three manuals.
You're less likely to make a mistake if the process for producing each book is the same. That's why I suggested a separate book for each manual. Name each book appropriately for the manual version it produces. As Fred noted, each book should have its own generated files (TOC, etc.), so store the variables and condition settings in one of those. When you want to produce the Widget 1000 User Guide, open widget_1000.book, import variables and conditions from its TOC to the other files in the book, and you're all. It's having one process for book A and another for book B that's likely to cause trouble. IMHO, YMMV. Richard Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------ _______________________________________________ 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.