[Framers] Toggling Condition Indicators Individually

[Peter Gold]

Good reminder, Fred!.

There's something warm and fuzzy when a long-dormant FM feature gets
recognized for its current usefulness.

Thanks.

My point in suggesting the non-main-content area was intended to make the
non-printing memory-jogging material always visible to authors, but not in
deliverables, without any manual effort to display or conceal it.



On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Fred Ridder <DocuDoc at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Unless something has changed in recent versions of FrameMaker, there is no
> need to restrict yourself to "non-main-content areas" on master pages. The
> main text frames on the master pages are only *placeholder* frames. You can
> fill them up with notes and instructions and whatever  else you want to put
> in there, and none of it will ever appear in the deliverable document. And
> since you can add more master pages beyond what you actually need for your
> document design, there's a relatively unlimited amount of space available.
>
> I used this trick extensively when I was working with a group of more than
> 25 writers at a previous employer (back in the FM6 days) when we were
> migrating a hundred or so documents from Word to FrameMaker. I haven't had
> need to use this trick in about a decade, but I can't imagine that Adobe
> would have changed the basic document model so completely that it no longer
> works.
>
> -FR
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