Conditional Text Question

[Ellen Lebelle]

<< If these documents were for a new product line, we
MIGHT be able to get away with putting them into a single number.
However, they are for two separate but similar product lines. The first
one is 1950 while the second one is 2158.

OK, Sam.

How about using smaller text insets that you import into your chapters. So
your chapter is a shell - not quite empty - you can have most of your
generic text there, but when you get to a topic that is product A, you
import the text inset for product A and make it "conditional" and do the
same for product B. When you import your conditional settings from the book
cover, only the relevant text insets will appear.

Use Bruce Foster's Archiver to make an archive of the A book and label it
with the date and number. Do the same for Book B and these archives remain
archives, and your source files can be updated without fouling up the
archived books.

Another solution is to use Structured FM and use Russ Ward's, Inset Plus
(which allows you to inset text insets, update them and save the updates to
them with no fuss) and ABCM (which allows you to use attributes and assign
them colors - like conditional text - but better!). When you filter a book
with the attributes you want, it creates new files that you can save for
your archives. Your source files still contain everything. And you only need
to update your source files.

Ellen