[Framers] Conditional and Shared Text - Determining Percentages

[Scott Prentice]

Yeah .. that's where I was trying to go .. even if it wasn't described 
properly.  :-)

...scott


On 2/15/17 2:14 PM, Lin Sims wrote:
> Scott,
>
> I don't think that will work as stated. She's trying to figure out how much
> is the same across files, and this doesn't really tell her if the
> information is the same, just that one has more characters than another.
>
> On the other hand, if she adds a step to HIDE all of the text that is
> conditioned, she'll get a file size/character count of only the common
> text, and then she can compare that to the numbers from the files that have
> one or more conditions showing depending on how she sets the display.
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Scott Prentice wrote:
>
>> Alison...
>>
>> Since no one else jumped on this with a "good" solution .. here's my hack
>> option.
>>
>> 1) Set the conditional state (hide/show) to show all (or whatever is one
>> state of content you want to measure).
>> 2) Run the .. File > Utilities > Document Reports > Character Count ..
>> command. Note that number.
>> 3) Change the conditional state to show the reduced set of content
>> 4) Run Character Count again. Note that number.
>> 5) Compare those numbers and repeat for other cases.
>>
>> Not "simple" but not terribly hard. This could certainly be automated with
>> a plugin or script.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> ...scott
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/15/17 10:49 AM, Craig, Alison wrote:
>>
>>> - Frame 12
>>> - unstructured
>>> - Windows 7 64 bit
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if there is a way to figure out what percentage of text
>>> in a book is shared?
>>>
>>> Even better would be a way figure out how much text is conditional based
>>> on the mix of conditions applied to the text.
>>>
>>> My conditions are mostly to do with the product in question (as listed
>>> below) - so it would be great if I could figure out what percentage of
>>> conditional text is represented by each option.
>>>
>>> - Touch
>>> - MSO
>>> - Tab1
>>> - Tab
>>> - Touch and MSO
>>> - Touch and Tab1
>>> - Tab1 and Tab
>>>
>>>
>>> Alison Craig
>>> Technical Documentation Specialist
>>> acraig at bkultrasound.com<mailto:acraig at bkultrasound.com> |
>>> bkultrasound.com<www.bkultrasound.com>
>>>
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