I would not have added the text to the element as an Autonumber Format
if I could have avoided it. I would have added the text as a variable
and apply a condition to the variable after inserting it in the doc.
If that's not a good solution for you, then I would add both sets of
styles to the same doc, only for the styles that you had to change. This
would require changing the names. So you would have "Figure Caption" and
"Figure Caption Special." Then conditional each paragraph to appear in
one manual the standard manual or the custom manual.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
On 07-Jun-12 5:48 AM, Combs, Richard wrote:
John Newman wrote:
Since the appended version is a new requirement, I created one manually
to meet an immediate deadline by making a copy of the whole FM book and
adding the parenthetical element using Autonumber Formatting to the
appropriate paragraph tags.
I don't want to maintain two versions of the exact same content (it's
over 150 pages), so how can I do what amounts to conditional paragraph
tags? It'd be great to somehow tell FM, "Use NORMAL-LAYOUT because this
is a normal document." And then after producing a PDF tell FM, "Use
FUNKY-LAYOUT because this is a funky document." The solution is
probably staring me in the face, but my brain can't seem to find the
way.
Make a special-purpose template file for each. In an FM file that has your
existing book's paragraph formats, delete everything except the paragraph
formats that need to be switched between the normal and funky definitions --
conditions, xrefs, table formats, char formats, etc. (This isn't strictly
necessary, but it simplifies the file, avoids confusion, and prevents you from
accidentally importing from it things you don't want to import.) Save it as
NORMAL-LAYOUT.fm.
Now make a copy of NORMAL-LAYOUT.fm and save it as FUNKY-LAYOUT.fm. In it,
redefine the paragraph formats to have the autonumbers you need in the funky
version.
To output a funky version of the book:
1) Open FUNKY-LAYOUT.fm.
2) Open the book and select all the files in it (or all the chapter files, if
your frontmatter uses a different paragraph catalog).
3) Select File> Import> Formats.
4) In the Import Formats dialog, set Import from Document to FUNKY-LAYOUT.fm,
select only Paragraph Formats, and click Import.
5) Update/generate the book and create your funky PDF.
To output a normal version of the book, repeat the above steps, but at steps 1
and 4, use NORMAL-LAYOUT.fm.
Once you've created NORMAL-LAYOUT.fm and FUNKY-LAYOUT.fm, switching the book
from one to the other takes less time than it took to describe the process.
HTH!
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-903-6372
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