PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA?

Jeremy H. Griffith jeremy at omsys.com
Sun May 20 13:54:38 PDT 2007


On Sun, 20 May 2007 13:30:45 -0700, Scott Prentice 
<sp at leximation.com> wrote:

>It's a good practice to avoid conditional content within 
>index entries .. it's one thing to include/exclude a marker 
>in a specific output, but if you start messing with words 
>within a marker, you'll go nuts.

It's not only good practice, it's the law.  ;-)

Frame *implements* conditional text using markers.  So it's
flat-out impossible to conditionalize *within* a marker.
As Scott says, the closest you can get to that is:

>you'd need to create duplicate markers with different text, 
>and conditionalize each marker accordingly. However this 
>is difficult to maintain ...


-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/



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