RE:Using Conditional Text - was: printing text symbols

[larry.kollar@xxxxxxxxxx]

[Peter Gold & Dick Gaskill recommend using conditional text at
the paragraph level rather than word/sentence level, and provide
examples.]

Here's a counter-example -- I'm maintaining a set of documents
for a group of products. The set consists of an installation guide
that covers all three (current) models, and individual quick-
start sheets & wall-mount templates. I use text insets for common
(to more than one document) chunks, and I conditionalize slight
differences (for example, two of the models use two screws for
wall-mounting, the third model uses four screws).

Since the products are under development, and the requirements
are constantly changing, it's a whole lot easier to make one change
one time than to make the same change in two or three paragraphs.
When things settle down a bit, I may revisit the way I've done
things -- but my current scheme lets me keep up fairly easily.

--
Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
"Content creators are the engine that drives
value in the information life cycle."
    -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc



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