[Framers] Condition expression for conditional text

[Lin Sims]

Book 44 ... damnit. Tpyos r me.

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 12:42 PM Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Err, by repeat for each book, I mean duplicate the expressions but editing
> them appropriately. So Book 40, which is your special one, uses almost the
> identical expression:
>
> Book 44, PDF: not (40 or 41 or 42 or HTML) and not (44 and HTML)
> Book 44, HTML: not (40 or 41 or 42 or PDF) and not (44 and PDF)
>
> I think you can see from this how the expressions would need to be edited
> for 41 and 42?
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 12:35 PM Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Conditioning text works best if you keep it consistent: all of your
>> conditions should be constructed either for the information you DO want to
>> appear in a specific document or for information you DON'T want to appear
>> in a specific document. Making some conditions for information you want in
>> and some you want out is, as you're discovering, hard to work with,
>> especially when you have some of the conditions on a piece of information
>> are for showing and some are for hiding.
>>
>> Over the years, I've found that it is far, far easier to tag for the
>> documents you want the information to be IN.
>>
>> For example, in your case, if the information is only visible in 41, tag
>> it with 41 but not 40, 42, or 44. If it's visible in 40, 41, and 42 but not
>> 44, tag it with 40, 41, and 42 but not 44. Yes, it seems like extra work,
>> but it produces consistent results.
>>
>> You also have two output conditions, PDF or HTML. This is where things
>> get trickier and where expressions come into play because you have to
>> carefully describe the information you want to be visible when there are
>> multiple tags on the text. (The problem with using the Show/Hide panes is
>> that if you have multiple tags on the text, using the Show/Hide panes means
>> that the text will be visible if even one tag is in the Show pane.)
>>
>> If you tag the way I suggest, I believe the following will work:
>>
>> For Book 40, PDF: not (41 or 42 or 44 or HTML) and not (40 and HTML)
>> For Book 40, HTML: not (41 or 42 or 44 or PDF) and not (40 and PDF)
>>
>> and repeat for each book.
>>
>> One of these days, I ought to write up an article on complex conditional
>> expressions. At one point, I was handling a set of files with 10 different
>> outputs arising from 15 different conditions. The expressions were ...
>> complicated. And very, very long. I actually used multiple tables to figure
>> out the combinations needed to produce the output I wanted.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 11:38 AM Doug <dbailey4117 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Things are getting complicated.
>>>
>>> I'm currently editing a chapter that is common to four books.  The books
>>> are 40, 41, 42, and 44.  Some content isn't applicable to book 44, so
>>> I've
>>> set up a condition tag named "Not 44".
>>>
>>> The problematic content sections use the tags (Not 44+PDF) and (Not
>>> 44+HTML), since some content is PDF-only and other content is HTML only.
>>> Needless to say, these bits of content are applicable to 40, 41, and 42
>>> (but not 44).
>>>
>>> Is using "Not 44" a bad condition?  I feel it must be because when I Show
>>> As Per Expression it shows both the  (Not 44+PDF) and (Not 44+HTML)
>>> sections, I assume because the expression says in include "Not 44"
>>> content.  It's as if the parentheses don't mean anything.
>>>
>>> Some content is unique to each book (4 condition possibilities)
>>> Some is common to some books
>>> Some is common to all books
>>> Some is PDF
>>> Some is HTML
>>>
>>> Ideas?  Thanks.
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