can a chapter in a book be set to conditional?

[Combs, Richard]

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 changed the
> variables and the conditional text settings to produce the specific
> manual. The cover pages are added to the pdf file, they are done in a
> different program, so no advantage here for working with three books.
> Two books for 3 manuals will be the solution, and I have to note down
in
> my procedure that there is a separate book for one of the three
manuals.

You're less likely to make a mistake if the process for producing each
book is the same. That's why I suggested a separate book for each
manual. 

Name each book appropriately for the manual version it produces. As Fred
noted, each book should have its own generated files (TOC, etc.), so
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. 

It's having one process for book A and another for book B that's likely
to cause trouble. 

IMHO, YMMV.

Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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