[Framers] Condition expression for conditional text

[Doug]

Thanks Lin, I'll give it a shot.

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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