Sync paragraphs between two different .fm

[RaulM21]

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

[Bob_Niland]

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).

[RaulM21]

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]

> What about images and anchored frames?

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

[RaulM21]

After doing some test, I think there is a better way to do this whithout duplicating files. Any.

Correct me if I'm wrong, please.

My files:

-Product.book

     -Product_Title.fm

     -Product_Index.fm

     -Product_Content.fm

I need to create Product A and Product B, they are not exactly the same, but only changes the engine. Some tables, images and texts will change.

I didn't understand you so well, maybe what I'm going to say could be the same.

My conclusion is that I'm going to create only ONE Product.book, only ONE Product_Title.fm, only ONE Product_Index.fm and only ONE Product_Content.fm.

To create PDF files, as same for MIF, I'll only need to show/hide conditional text of .fm files from .book file. By this way is how I can create ProductA.pdf and ProductB.pdf from only ONE  .book file.

Am I wrong? Is there other easier way?

Thank you in advance.

Regards.

P.S.: Sorry for my bad english.

[Bob_Niland]

> My conclusion is that I'm going to create only ONE Product.book, only ONE Product_Title.fm, only ONE Product_Index.fm and only ONE Product_Content.fm.

That works, as long as your page layouts and formats don't need to be different.

In our badge engineering case, the cover and all page layouts are substantially different, so having a separate book structure, and importing Flow A of the "content.fm" file is the solution.

We're doing the domestic vs. export versioning with dual books as well, against the likelihood that the export versions will eventually need to be on A4 pages.

[RaulM21]

I tried it. When I change between Product A and Product B, when a paragraph is deleted, page layout is updated. When a whole page is deleted, leftover page is also deleted.

Still not understanding your method, sorry .

Excuse me for making so many cuestions, I'm trying to understand this workflow, not to invalidate your response!

I am extremely grateful.

Best regards

Raúl

[Bob_Niland]

Are you doing an Apply Master Pages after changing show/hide Condition Codes?