>> I've been sorely tempted to write a free plugin to do that, where you could have boolean logic that included more than "OR". Perhaps this is a feature in the next FM. I don't know, myself, but I'd love to see it.
That would ROCK! Please create that plugin -Gillian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces+gflato=nanometrics.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy H. Griffith Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:38 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: FrameMaker.next On Thu, 17 May 2007 20:08:17 -0700 (GMT-07:00), Diane Gaskill <dgcaller at earthlink.net> wrote: >My question is Why?? I suppose this is a little OT, but I >cannot imagine needing more than 10 conditions, even when >you create PDF for both computer screens and handhelds, and >also help, as well as have 3 or 4 models of a product >described in the same set of files. I can imagine it quite easily... think "combinatorial explosion". With the present system, when you have more than one axis, like say "product" and "country", each with two or more values, say pot/pan and UK/US, you have a problem with unwanted intersections. If you say to include pot and US, and exclude pan and UK, you'll be surprised to see that pan/US and pot/UK are both present. This is because when categories overlap and one is in and one is out, the combination is in. To prevent that, in the situation above, you need tags for pot (not US/UK), pan (not US/UK), US (not pot/pan), UK (not pot/pan), pot-US, pot-UK, pan-US, and pan-UK. That's the simplest case, and it needs eight tags. Add another axis, like user/admin, and see what happens... Hint: it's *more* than 16. ;-) >How in heck to you keep track of 80 tags, Carla? That's the problem, all right. Managing it all. I've been sorely tempted to write a free plugin to do that, where you could have boolean logic that included more than "OR". Perhaps this is a feature in the next FM. I don't know, myself, but I'd love to see it. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <jeremy at omsys.com> http://www.omsys.com/ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as gflato at nanometrics.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/gflato%40nanometrics .com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
