[Framers] Toggling Condition Indicators Individually

[Lin Sims]

As I said to Fred, the problem is that this information has to be VISIBLE
in the deliverable.

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Peter Gold <peter at petergold.photography>
wrote:

> 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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Lin Sims