[Framers] conditions - in templates vs. applicable docs ?

[Fred Ridder]

And since each of these format/variable/condition templates is only used to overlay FrameMaker layers that don't contain document content, you can use the content layer to contain detailed descriptions of everything that is defined in the template, and even a change history as the template evolves. Self-documentation is a really powerful tool for templates and stylesheets because I've never met anyone who can remember all the details for more than a day or so.

-FR

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From: Framers <framers-bounces+docudoc=hotmail.com at lists.frameusers.com> on behalf of Monique Semp <monique.semp at earthlink.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 11:02 AM
To: Robert Lauriston; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: [Framers] conditions - in templates vs. applicable docs ?

> You could keep the conditions in a separate file.

Ah, and just treat that file as a "template", and use it to import the
relevant conditions into the applicable docs' .fm files? I like that idea.
It would be easy to create a template_conditions_prod1.fm file, a
template_conditions_prod2.fm file, and so on, and then just use those to
make sure that every .fm file in a given book gets the same conditions.

And by extension, I could mimic this for other template elements, such as
variables.

Thanks for the idea!
-Monique

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