I have produced 2 books from one using conditional text for UK and US
spelling and metric units and those parts of the text that are different.
The forewords are different, and here whole pages are conditional. If you
have the appendix in a different file, you could just make that whole text
Ragnar Hanas wrote:
> I have produced 2 books from one using conditional text for UK and US
> spelling and metric units and those parts of the text that are
different.
> The forewords are different, and here whole pages are conditional. If
you
> have the appendix in a different file, you could
I have produced 2 books from one using conditional text for UK and US
spelling and metric units and those parts of the text that are different.
The forewords are different, and here whole pages are conditional. If you
have the appendix in a different file, you could just make that whole text
My objection to building two books is the risk of producing a wrong
manual because I forgot that I had an extra book for one of the manuals
(you all know that things can get rather hectic close to a deadline).
What I have done until now for the 3 products is that I changed the
variables and the
Ulrike Forsberg wrote:
My objection to building two books is the risk of producing a wrong
manual because I forgot that I had an extra book for one of the
manuals
(you all know that things can get rather hectic close to a deadline).
What I have done until now for the 3 products is that I
Hi Ulrike,
You might consider using structured FrameMaker in conjunction with our
AXCM plugin. With that, you can conditionalize whole chapters and much
more. I do it regularly. I agree with the sentiment that multiple books
is cumbersome and error prone.
AXCM is completely free... you can read
store the variables and condition settings in one of those. When you
want to produce the Widget 1000 User Guide, open widget_1000.book,
import variables and conditions from its TOC to the other files in the
book, and you're all.
... set. You're all set.
I hate it when I do that.
Richard
My objection to building two books is the risk of producing a wrong
manual because I forgot that I had an extra book for one of the manuals
(you all know that things can get rather hectic close to a deadline).
What I have done until now for the 3 products is that I changed the
variables and the
Ulrike Forsberg wrote:
> My objection to building two books is the risk of producing a wrong
> manual because I forgot that I had an extra book for one of the
manuals
> (you all know that things can get rather hectic close to a deadline).
> What I have done until now for the 3 products is that I
Hi Ulrike,
You might consider using structured FrameMaker in conjunction with our
AXCM plugin. With that, you can conditionalize whole chapters and much
more. I do it regularly. I agree with the sentiment that multiple books
is cumbersome and error prone.
AXCM is completely free... you can read
> store the variables and condition settings in one of those. When you
> want to produce the Widget 1000 User Guide, open widget_1000.book,
> import variables and conditions from its TOC to the other files in the
> book, and you're all.
... set. You're all set.
I hate it when I do that.
Hi Framers,
I have a book file with a number of chapters and appendices. I use the
same book file for 3 manuals, which I control with 3 conditional text
tags.
One of the appendices is only used in 2 of the manuals. Can I make this
appendix conditional?
My fallback solution is to make a separate
Ulrike Forsberg wrote:
I have a book file with a number of chapters and appendices. I use the
same book file for 3 manuals, which I control with 3 conditional text
tags.
One of the appendices is only used in 2 of the manuals. Can I make
this
appendix conditional?
My fallback solution is to
I don't really have objections to building multiple books, myself, but
I wish that I could control page numbering for subordinate or included
books from the top-level book. Then again, I need to remember to do
separate updates for all books before generating. It would be nice to
be able to
What is your objection to building two books? That's the way FrameMaker is
designed to work. If it weren't for the ability to build different books from
differing collections of chapters is the primary reason for the extra
comlication of the chapter/book paradigm.
-Fred Ridder
Subject:
The question I answered did not deal with multi-level (nested?) books. It was a
simple question about building two different deliverables from a mostly shared
set of component files. The answer to that question is that the method for
excluding one chapter from one deliverable while including
Fred,
I have a similar but not identical situation. (FM 9) I have two
versions of the same product; one is cut down from the other. There are
roughly 100 components to the large manual I inherited, which is a
reference guide. These are currently grouped into 7 sections. The
smaller version
What is your objection to building two books? That's the way FrameMaker is
designed to work. If it weren't for the ability to build different books from
differing collections of chapters is the primary reason for the extra
comlication of the chapter/book paradigm.
-Fred Ridder
> Subject:
Ulrike Forsberg wrote:
> I have a book file with a number of chapters and appendices. I use the
> same book file for 3 manuals, which I control with 3 conditional text
> tags.
> One of the appendices is only used in 2 of the manuals. Can I make
this
> appendix conditional?
> My fallback solution
I don't really have "objections" to building multiple books, myself, but
I wish that I could control page numbering for "subordinate" or included
books from the top-level book. Then again, I need to remember to do
separate updates for all books before generating. It would be nice to
be able
The question I answered did not deal with multi-level (nested?) books. It was a
simple question about building two different deliverables from a mostly shared
set of component files. The answer to that question is that the method for
excluding one chapter from one deliverable while including
Fred,
I have a similar but not identical situation. (FM 9) I have two
versions of the same product; one is cut down from the other. There are
roughly 100 components to the large manual I inherited, which is a
reference guide. These are currently grouped into 7 sections. The
smaller version
Hi Framers,
I have a book file with a number of chapters and appendices. I use the
same book file for 3 manuals, which I control with 3 conditional text
tags.
One of the appendices is only used in 2 of the manuals. Can I make this
appendix conditional?
My fallback solution is to make a separate
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