RE: Conditional content - what do you do with it?

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

 Keith Hood typed:

> Nothing is perfect. 

You're talking about my eyes?

> I make a lot of use of variables so I can 
> update things automatically.  And when I say duplicate 
> content, I mean immediately adjacent. I figure it's easier to 
> change sentences in two paragraphs right next to each other 
> than to deal with a jumble of condition tags. To each his own.

I've been tending that way, lately... ever since my eyes 
got old, last month. . .     :-) 

Seriously, that arrangement seems to be the best bet. 

I haven't yet decided if I might make an exception for 
product names. 
Once upon a time, that would have been a frequent thing 
to deal with, but I've been steadily replacing most 
occurrences of <some-product-name>/<some-other-product-name> 
with generic wording such as "your HSM" or "the HSM server", 
etc., as appropriate. 

It gives me much less grief, and the visuals are ever-so-much 
less cluttered. 

It's good to see other people's perspectives and suggestions. 

I can't really act on suggestions to use a different HAT, 
but restraining myself to conditional blocks no smaller 
than a full paragraph is probably the biggest help. 

Cheers,

 - Kevin

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