> A couple of years ago, I experimented with conditional text.
> Today, I was looking in one of those files for something that
> I thought really *should* be there... but it wasn't. A few
> moments later, I thought to check if the conditions were set
> for that option. They weren't, and when I turned them on, I
> was able to find what I was looking for.
>
> That seems to me to be a big drawback for using conditional
> text. Or is there something I'm just not seeing, here?
Hi Lisa,
I think that until you get in the habit of using conditional text, this
can be a drawback. Even now, if I go back to a file I created a couple
of years ago, I can have a WTF moment looking at conditional text tags
that made completely sense at the time. (RG-4-Out-No? What was I
thinking?) Another thing I've done is written something and then
realized it had been there all along. But as I said, that's in documents
I hadn't worked with in a while.
I have a 600 page document that's *loaded* with conditional text for a
freelance project. I've been working on it for most of 5 years. And I'm
used to the tags I use, how they work, what to turn on and off for
different product suites and I find that it really saves my life.
One thing I do now that I didn't always is standardize the tags across
all the chapters in a book file. It just makes everything print faster.
And when I find something that goes hinky when I do that, I just fiddle
with the tags until it doesn't anymore. That way I can set Show/Hide
Conditional Text at the book file level, which saves WORLDS of time.
Anne
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