Re: PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA?

2007-05-26 Thread Scott Prentice
20 PM To: Jeremy H. Griffith Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA? Thanks Jeremy .. good point! Now that I read what I wrote, I can see how it could be misunderstood. I meant that even if you do duplicate and conditionalize markers just to change one word i

Re: PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA?

2007-05-26 Thread Gyanesh Talwar
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Prentice Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 3:20 PM To: Jeremy H. Griffith Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA? Thanks Jeremy .. good point! Now that I read what I wrote, I can see how it could be misunderstood

RE: PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA?

2007-05-21 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Prentice Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 3:20 PM To: Jeremy H. Griffith Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA? Thanks Jeremy .. good point! Now that I read what I wrote, I can see how it could b

Re: PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA?

2007-05-20 Thread Gyanesh Talwar
Thanks Scott! I think i will settle for show/hide. And if I do, is there a way to handle index/toc/variables (such as name of the book) automatically? Or do I do that manually? And let's say I have to implement DITA. Can I still publish two different PDFs selectively? And how will I carry out th

Re: PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA?

2007-05-20 Thread Scott Prentice
Thanks Jeremy .. good point! Now that I read what I wrote, I can see how it could be misunderstood. I meant that even if you do duplicate and conditionalize markers just to change one word in that marker, it will become a mess to manage. :) The Index Tools Pro plugin claims to provide for "co

Re: PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA?

2007-05-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Sun, 20 May 2007 13:30:45 -0700, Scott Prentice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It's a good practice to avoid conditional content within >index entries .. it's one thing to include/exclude a marker >in a specific output, but if you start messing with words >within a marker, you'll go nuts. It'

Re: PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA?

2007-05-20 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Gyanesh... Each time you regenerate your book, the conditional settings in effect, will define the content shown in the generated lists (Index and TOC specifically). The index is generated from index markers, and they will be used (or not) depending on their conditional tagging. This isn'

Re: PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA?

2007-05-18 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Gyanesh... If your main goal is to publish two different sets of content from the same FM source files, I'd think that your best bet is to just use conditional text (show/hide) in unstructured FM files. There are probably benefits you could gain by moving to structure and/or DITA (and it c