[Framers] Conditional Expression build crashing FrameMaker with Internal Errors

[Robert Lauriston]

Generally speaking, when defining a set of conditions, you want to (1)
minimize the amount of text that has to be tagged, (2) minimize
multiple tagging, (3) maximize unconditional text, and (4) define the
minimum number of conditions to achieve that.

Sometimes that means defining conditions for text to be included,
other times it means defining conditions for text to be excluded. Best
practice, those should be named so as to indicate their function, for
example IncludeInFoo, OnlyInFoo, and ExcludeFromFoo.

I'm not sure why an Internal tag would ever be combined with any other
tag. External should be unnecessary since it means the same thing as
the absence of the Internal tag.

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yours is a more elegant solution. As I said before, this is my first
> go-around with Conditional expressions. It didn't help at all that the
> standard I was told to apply here was to tag text with the condition for the
> book I want to produce. That produced some odd results I can no longer
> recall (mostly because I had text tagged for both Internal and Cust01).
>
> What I wound up with, in variations, is as follows:
>
> For a book where I want IP A and Cust01, but not IP B or Internal, I used:
>
> "IP A" or "Cust01" and not ("IP B" or ("IP A" and "Internal"))
>
> It works.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> ("A" or "External" or ("A" and "External")) could be simplified to
>>
>> ("A" or "External")
>>
>> not (("A" and "Internal") or "B" or ("B" and "External") or "TBP or
>> "WriterNote")
>>
>> could be simplified to
>>
>> not ("A" and "Internal") or "B"  or "TBP or "WriterNote")
>>
>> But it's not clear why you can't just use
>>
>> not ("Internal" or "B"  or "TBP or "WriterNote")
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