Our MarkerTools plugin allows you to add "variables" to marker text. 
This adds some overhead to your workflow, but it does provide a 
"conditional-like" functionality ..

    http://leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php

Cheers,

...scott

Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892



Fred Ridder wrote:
> 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
>
>  
>
>  
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