The penny just dropped ... I noticed that you did not recommend (or even suggest) making them into book and using Conditional Text, even the Set #2 which has the books (four) having about only 10% identical content. Why, may I ask, did you not recommend Conditional Text?
avraham On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com>wrote: > Replies cut in below... > > Art Campbell > art.campbell at gmail.com > "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 > Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson > No disclaimers apply. > DoD 358 > > > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Avraham Makeler <amakeler at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Thanks, Art. > > (a) So you would use the same method for both Set #1 and Set #2? > > I think so; the only real difference seems to be the amount of shared info. > I might change my mind if I had the files to look at and play with, but.... > > > (b) re: \Shared - You make \Shared contain FM files only? > > Yes, that's the way I do it. Very rarely there are text files to > include, but what other files (not including graphics) would you > include? > > > (c) re: \Graphics - Often many graphics are not shared. So I suppose in > that > > case you would have a 'Shared Graphics' folder, but also a > > separate \Graphics folder for each book. > > You could certainly do it that way. I'm not sure that I would because > there's no way to know how many graphics are reused and how many are > in the \Shared files. You don't want a graphic in a \Shared file to be > buried in a book subdirectory. > > I've found it easier to lump all graphics together so that when one > needs to be changed, it ripples automatically no matter where or how > many times it's used. YMMV. > > > (d) > >>> I'd guesstimate a day per book for conversion, but that's a > > WAG. Could easily be half that or twice that, depending on how the > > books are set up and how fast you are. > > - Well, I have never done it before. > > - So a reasonable estimate for a set with two books is that it could take > > two days? > If you're going to take it all the way to building new books with the > shared content, that are ready to go out the door, yes, easily. >