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conditional text & single sourcing

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From: mattg
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 04:44
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Hi 

We've moved to single sourcing over the last 8 months using Frame 6. Over 7 manuals are produced as pdf's. Much of the material is directly applicable to all manuals. Conditional text is used for text that applies to one manual and not another etc. 

However, the conditional text is getting very complex - many conditions, multiple conditions applied to the same text, small blocks of conditional text. 

I was wondering what strategies others are using for conditional text. Sometimes I wonder if seperate manuals were easier to maintain. 

In particular, what is the size of the text block conditional tags are applied too - word, sentence, paragraph? Often the only difference in a sentence or paragraph of text that needs a condition is one or two words, such as a list of features. 

Any ideas appreciated - Matt
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