tips for change bars and revision management

Question

When a table row is deleted, there is no change bar indication. Does anyone have workarounds for that?

It seems like revision management in FrameMaker is not as full-featured as one would like. Any tips on revision management in FrameMaker would be welcome.

FieryPantone · Accepted Answer

imho, it's tables that cause the most trouble; what I do there, resignedly, is apply the condition to the content of each cell instead of just selecting the row and seeing those disconcerting chevaux-de-frise

the other tweak I've sometimes had to use is setting up extra style for headings, so that I can show a deleted heading in the text without having it show up in the ToC and not looking deleted :-}

apart from that, and refusing to use any form of 'automated' track changes in any software, I'm very happy with FM's revision options; I have source files for one large regulatory document I used to work on that neatly include changes, additions and deletions for around thirty releases while only displaying (of course!) those for the latest round

Bob_Niland · Answer

Another approach, depending on the desire of your reviewers, is to leave deleted content in, and visible, but tagged with a Condition Code (CC).

For example, create CC "Deleted" which is color red with strikethrough. Set that CC to Show for review, Hide for publication. In the case of Tables, apply the CC to entire rows and to the cell content in the rows.

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