Re: Editors that support conditionals

[Andrew Harvie <withanie -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I'll try both methods.  Very much appreciate the quick response from
everyone.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
wrote:

> Kludging conditional text with hidden-text character styles is
> complicated and time-consuming and a technically challenged marketing
> person could easily screw things up.
>
> Mail merge is much cleaner and marketing will get a set of clean Word
> documents with no funny stuff requiring explanation.
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- nuot -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > 1. Make sure the source document is set up with proper paragraph styles.
> > 2. Create character styles to mark the "sibling" versions of similar
> text.
> > 3. Create a separate template for each sibling version, in which all but
> the relevant sibling styles are defined in that template as hidden.
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