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Subject:RE: conditional text alternative for RoboHELP From:"David Knopf" <david -at- knopf -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:47:55 -0800
Char James-Tanny wrote:
| RoboHelp Classic has included build tags since...well, for quite
awhile ;-
| )
| Build tags have been available in RoboHelp HTML since Version 2000 (or
8).
|
| Build tags let developers include or exclude entire topics from the
| output.
| However, they are not the same as conditional text, which allows
| developers to
| include or exclude parts of a topic (characters, words, paragraphs,
etc.).
|
| The RoboHelp family of products doesn't support conditional text.
Exactly. Also, build tags are a core part of Microsoft's WinHelp and
HTML Help compilers. They are supported by many authoring tools and are
by no means specific to RoboHelp.
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