Conditional text in Frame 9

[Everette, Dimi]

Hear, hear!! I had a gap between version 5 and 7.2 for using FrameMaker and didn't do much with conditional text in the old days. It was indeed a poor and illogical decision to treat the pilcrow (never heard that before!) as something different from the rest of the paragraph. Of course you want the pilcrow to be part of the conditional text!!

I have run across this behavior quite a bit and simply have to go back and apply the condition to the pilcrow.

Regards,
Dimi


Dimi Everette, Sr. Technical Writer
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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 7:29 AM
To: rshelton at opentext.com; dr_gonzo at pobox.com; martin at em-dash.com
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Conditional text in Frame 9


I believe this change in behavior was introduced in FM7, and my recollection is that it was described as a "correction" in the release notes. In other words, it appeared to have been a change that was made deliberately by the development team in India. And if that is the case, it's now an uphill battle to establish that this illogical and annoying behavior is, in fact, *incorrect* and needs to be changed back to the way it was for years and years before FM7.
 
-Fred Ridder 
 
> Subject: RE: Conditional text in Frame 9
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:51:50 -0500
> From: rshelton at opentext.com
> To: dr_gonzo at pobox.com; martin at em-dash.com
> CC: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve
> > Johnson
> > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 8:23 PM
> > 
> > I have Frame 8 and can reproduce it. You can avoid it by not including
> > the pilcrow in the condition in the first place. And I didn't know it
> > was called a pilcrow...
> > 
> > Write the paragraph. Swipe the cursor over it and include the final
> > period but not the pilcrow. Apply conditional text to that and you
> > avoid the problem.
> > 
> > But if you triple-click the paragraph and apply conditional text you
> > get the problem.
> 
> But if I don't conditionalize the pilcrow, when I hide the condition the
> pilcrow stays there, and I end up with a blank paragraph. In most cases,
> that's not what I want. Unfortunately, I don't have a solution.
> 
> Bob
> "Let what comes, come,
> Let what goes, go,
> Find out what remains."
> Sri Ramana Maharshi
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