Anomalous Behavior of Conditional Text

[DW Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In structured docs, FM 6.0, I need to apply change bars and several 
different colors to selected text by applying different conditional text 
definitions, each of which specifes both a change bar and a particular 
color. In other words, the different colors relate to different types of 
changes. That approach works just fine.

But when I subsequently delete one of those conditional text settings and 
specify that the  text wrapped in that deleted conditional text setting be 
restored to unconditional status, the change bars remain, even though the 
EDD format rules do not specify change bars for that content, and the 
element paragraph format specifies that change bars are turned off. 
Re-importing the element definitions into the document with remove format 
overrides checked, also fails to get rid of the change bars, even though 
they constitute a format override to the specified paragraph format and EDD 
format rules.

Of course, I could choose Format > Document > Change bars and specify 
Remove All Change bars. But that would get rid of all change bars in the 
document, and that's not what I want to do. In other words, I want to 
preserve the change bars in text to which conditional text settings 
specifying change bars have not been deleted. Using special elements to 
wrap the text which needs change bars/colors is not an option because those 
elements do not exist in the EDD/DTD being used, and their addition to the 
EDD would violate the DTD.

I regard this as a bug in FM 6.0. Does this bug also exist in Frame 7?


FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design & Database Publishing
DW Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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