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RaulM21
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November 27, 2012
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Sync paragraphs between two different .fm

  • November 27, 2012
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Hello

I need to duplicate a .book, included .fm.

In the  duplicated files, title and index are different, but the content will include many text and images from the original. Only a few paragraphs changes.

Is there any way to copy as a reference these texts and images for prevent errors or not to duplicate future changes.

Thanks

P.S.: Sorry for my bad english.

Raúl

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    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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    November 27, 2012

    Make one book the master copy containing all text (Say, edition A and edition B).

    Use Condition Codes to tag the variant text. Leave the common text untagged.

    Create a second book for Edition B. Import the entire Flow A from the edition A files.

    When rendering edition A, show A, and hide the condition code for edition B.

    When rendering edition B, show B, and hide the cc for edition A.

    Do all editing in the A file set.

    Generated files (TOC, IX) can be unique to each book.

    We do this for badge-engineered variants of the same basic product (with entirely different page layouts), and for domestic vs. export variants of the same manual (with frequent cases of word-by-word tagging). It works surprising well, and is very stable (but this is FM7.1/Unix).

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    RaulM21Author
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    November 28, 2012

    Thank you very much.

    What about images and anchored frames?

    I don't know if I understand you, but I'll try.

    regards.

    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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    November 28, 2012

    > What about images and anchored frames?

    Images can't be made conditional, but their frame anchors can. So, no problem.

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