Book 44 ... damnit. Tpyos r me. On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 12:42 PM Lin Sims <[email protected]> wrote:
> Err, by repeat for each book, I mean duplicate the expressions but editing > them appropriately. So Book 40, which is your special one, uses almost the > identical expression: > > Book 44, PDF: not (40 or 41 or 42 or HTML) and not (44 and HTML) > Book 44, HTML: not (40 or 41 or 42 or PDF) and not (44 and PDF) > > I think you can see from this how the expressions would need to be edited > for 41 and 42? > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 12:35 PM Lin Sims <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Conditioning text works best if you keep it consistent: all of your >> conditions should be constructed either for the information you DO want to >> appear in a specific document or for information you DON'T want to appear >> in a specific document. Making some conditions for information you want in >> and some you want out is, as you're discovering, hard to work with, >> especially when you have some of the conditions on a piece of information >> are for showing and some are for hiding. >> >> Over the years, I've found that it is far, far easier to tag for the >> documents you want the information to be IN. >> >> For example, in your case, if the information is only visible in 41, tag >> it with 41 but not 40, 42, or 44. If it's visible in 40, 41, and 42 but not >> 44, tag it with 40, 41, and 42 but not 44. Yes, it seems like extra work, >> but it produces consistent results. >> >> You also have two output conditions, PDF or HTML. This is where things >> get trickier and where expressions come into play because you have to >> carefully describe the information you want to be visible when there are >> multiple tags on the text. (The problem with using the Show/Hide panes is >> that if you have multiple tags on the text, using the Show/Hide panes means >> that the text will be visible if even one tag is in the Show pane.) >> >> If you tag the way I suggest, I believe the following will work: >> >> For Book 40, PDF: not (41 or 42 or 44 or HTML) and not (40 and HTML) >> For Book 40, HTML: not (41 or 42 or 44 or PDF) and not (40 and PDF) >> >> and repeat for each book. >> >> One of these days, I ought to write up an article on complex conditional >> expressions. At one point, I was handling a set of files with 10 different >> outputs arising from 15 different conditions. The expressions were ... >> complicated. And very, very long. I actually used multiple tables to figure >> out the combinations needed to produce the output I wanted. >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 11:38 AM Doug <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Things are getting complicated. >>> >>> I'm currently editing a chapter that is common to four books. The books >>> are 40, 41, 42, and 44. Some content isn't applicable to book 44, so >>> I've >>> set up a condition tag named "Not 44". >>> >>> The problematic content sections use the tags (Not 44+PDF) and (Not >>> 44+HTML), since some content is PDF-only and other content is HTML only. >>> Needless to say, these bits of content are applicable to 40, 41, and 42 >>> (but not 44). >>> >>> Is using "Not 44" a bad condition? I feel it must be because when I Show >>> As Per Expression it shows both the (Not 44+PDF) and (Not 44+HTML) >>> sections, I assume because the expression says in include "Not 44" >>> content. It's as if the parentheses don't mean anything. >>> >>> Some content is unique to each book (4 condition possibilities) >>> Some is common to some books >>> Some is common to all books >>> Some is PDF >>> Some is HTML >>> >>> Ideas? Thanks. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> This message is from the Framers mailing list >>> >>> Send messages to [email protected] >>> Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com >>> Archives located at >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ >>> Subscribe and unsubscribe at >>> http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com >>> Send administrative questions to [email protected] >>> >> >> >> -- >> Lin Sims >> > > > -- > Lin Sims > -- Lin Sims _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
