I have a set of four manuals, user's guides and administrator's guides
for two products that are very similar, and we use a single set of text
insets to enable us to update all four books from a single source. We
are using unstructured Frame 7.2 along with FrameScript and numerous
plug-ins. We
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BTW, I'm using FrameMaker 7.2. Is there anything new re conditional text
in FM8?
Emphatically yes. Conditional text has two important improvements in
FrameMaker 8.0:
1) Support for Boolean logic in show/hide rules. Older versions of Frame
always assumed
Hi,
I love the idea of using conditional text, and I do so extensively for
producing several different versions of a user guide (c. 130 pages). I
currently output to five product versions + generic X 2 (print Help),
plus one or two internal conditions for comments and future/draft
sections.
In my company there are four manuals that have several chapters that are
almost identical. I created four separate book files (one for each
manual), with some of the chapters unique to each book, and some
chapters shared between the four books. In the shared chapters, I use
conditional text
Shmuel,
You wrote:
... Two things I don't like:
1. When I conditionalize a table marker, it's very hard to see the
conditional indicator.
2. When I conditionalize a table row, I can search for the row by search
for that conditional text type. To me, that is a big drawback, and I
often end up
