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Am talking about a practical limit of usability for the FrameMaker
user. And, I disagree, I believe conditional text was implemented
"backwards," such that overlapping conditions creates an "OR"
condition, not an "AND" condition (funnily enough, RoboHelp X3's
conditional text uses the "AND" method). As far as I know, FM should
be good for many conditions.
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:29:05 -0600, Jones, Donna <DJones -at- zebra -dot- com> wrote:
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> I was wondering what you meant by Frame being "limited to about 6 conditions." I haven't been able to find anything in my Frame 7 documentation that mentions a limit to the number of condition tags that can be created or used at once, and I haven't run across any instances where I used too many conditions for FrameMaker to function correctly. Some of my text insets have 15 or more conditions applied to certain portions of text to account for different printer lines, different releases, or rebranding.
>
> Conditional text is all very logical. Frame does exactly what you tell it to do, even if what you told it to do doesn't make any sense visually. As long as all of the text is tagged correctly, I daresay that the number of condition tags that can be used at once appears to be limited by the ability of the Frame user rather than by Frame itself.
15 conditions is way more than I'd try <g>.
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