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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m starting to work on revamping user guides from another division in our company.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One of the guides is currently in Word(!), in French, and I’m about to move it to FrameMaker and translate it into English at the same time.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a question: Is there a case for just having ONE book file for this guide, which contains files which have both French and English in them (hidden or displayed by conditional text)?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I can’t decide if this is a good idea or not, or if I should instead have two completely separate books for the English and French guides.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This will not be a one-off, btw, all guides for this division need both French and English versions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">None of them seem horribly long or overly complicated. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It may be that I should definitely maintain two separate versions – but I’m just not sure.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Laura<o:p></o:p></p>
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