Conrefs... Shake out white, turn BLUE!

Chris Despopoulos despopoulos_chriss at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 31 12:33:25 PDT 2013


You are the bomb, and I am forever in your debt.  All this, and no dead unicorns!

Thanks...




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Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: Conrefs...  Shake out white, turn BLUE!
 

This is from memory, but I think that FM treats conrefs as conditional text. Look at the conditional text values in the template file.

Nadine

>A reference to an old TV commercial for powdered cleanser.  You shake out white powder and it turns blue when it gets wet.  Conclusion?  This is the cleanser you should buy!
>
>I implemented conrefs in my DITA, and FrameMaker imports them wonderfully.  Except they TURN BLUE!  This makes about as much sense as the above commercial.  Why would I EVER want my conrefs to be a different color?!?!?  I tried looking through the EDD, and I only find one instance of "blue"...  It has nothing to do with conrefs.  Does anybody know how Maker is performing this nonsensical magic?  Must I kill a unicorn to end it?
>
>Thanks              cud
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