Thanks Lin, I'll give it a shot. 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 > _______________________________________________ > > 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] > _______________________________________________ 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]
