I'd like to echo what Richard said about not conditioning individual
words, from painful experience. We started off with quite a lot of
part-sentences conditioned and have been gradually removing them,
because they're so much harder to edit.
Another possible approach, especially if you have this
John Posada wrote:
My issue: I have some instances where they are listed in a
bullet list, which makes it easy to apply the conditionals as
I need them.
However, some instances use OS specific references in a sentence.
Following is an example of one.
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My advice: Use three conditions, Win, Unix, and Both, and three
Hi, guys...I'm reworking our boilerplate to allow a more accurate
application of our conditional settings from the perspective of
operating systems.
Our applications support anywhere from one to four operatings systems
(Window, Solaris, Linux, and HP-UX). Sometimes we are specific
between the
John Posada wrote:
> My issue: I have some instances where they are listed in a
> bullet list, which makes it easy to apply the conditionals as
> I need them.
> However, some instances use OS specific references in a sentence.
> Following is an example of one.
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> This
> My advice: Use three conditions, Win, Unix, and Both, and three
> _complete_ paragraphs, one for each condition. Applying conditions
> to a word here and there is just asking for trouble -- extra spaces
> or spaces missing, etc.
The problem with this part is that we have some applications that
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> However, I do agree about the problms with conditionalizing at the
> word level...just hoping that someone will come out with an "ah HAH!"
> technique.
> John Posada
> Senior
TuVox, Inc.
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