removing condition tags across book?

[Robert Lauriston]

I'm looking for a quick and easy way to do it. Since the conditions
aren't used they're not causing any problems so I can't justify
wasting much time getting rid of them. I think there used to be a
utility that would do that.

The features that show which tags and conditions are used is in my
experience buggy, they show false positives or negatives all the time.

I already took inventory by searching for the conditions since I
needed to figure out not only if they were used but for what
purpose(s).

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Craig Ede <craigede at hotmail.com> wrote:
> You can delete them manually in each file by the usual method. The nice
> thing about that is that if they *ARE* used they will flag you with a
> message asking if you want to delete the text that uses that condition tag
> or convert it to unconditional text.
>
> A perl, python, et. al. script could be used to delete the definitions for
> the unused condition tags from any selection of files if they are saved to
> MIF. To find out what needs to be deleted, save the file as mif, then save
> it again to mif under a different name. A Unix diff on the resulting files
> will show the relevant text that needs to be deleted and you script can hunt
> for that and replace it with nothing. My recollection is that there is very
> little to a Conditional Definition in a MIF. (Using an empty portrait doc
> that you've imported your conditional definition into might simplify this
> process.) Such scripts are pretty easy to write (and instructive).
>
> Best of luck.
>
> Craig
>
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> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 4:39 PM
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> Subject: removing condition tags across book?
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> Is there an easy way to remove an unused condition tag from all files in a
> book?
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