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Re: FM Conditional Text, Management and Control thereof

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From: R. VanDyke
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:49
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Sean: You're right -- and no, we're no more prescient than any other group of technical documentors.

It just seems to us at this point that a strategy based on developing and maintaining documents that contain an ever-growing number of condition tags -- especially if any of those conditions someday, somehow, become mutually exclusive -- seems more complicated and administration-intensive (even riskier) than does the strategy of parallel container documents.

I'm willing to have someone show me the error of our ways: That was the motivation behind my original post. At this point, however, I still perceive conditional text as a technique for "tweaking" an otherwise sound strategy of modular content and parallel container documents.

Cheers, thanks again, and Best Wishes for the coming New Year.
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