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Re: QUESTION: one manual for two different editions of the same product?
Subject:Re: QUESTION: one manual for two different editions of the same product? From:David Girardot <dmgirard -at- CORNETLTD -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 12 May 1998 16:19:52 -0400
My solution to a similar problem was to come up with a series of three icons
representing the three versions of the product. When a particular section
applies only to one or two versions, the appropriate icons appear in the
left margin.
For screenshots, I worked up a complicated system of includetext fields ...
basically, a simple search and replace and I can replace one set of pictures
with another. So far so good.
-- David
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