Lesson plan
Conditional text
Conditional text is content within a document that is meant to appear in some renditions of the document, but not other renditions. For example, a writer can produce Macintosh and Windows versions of the same software manual by marking Macintosh-specific content as "Macintosh only" and Windows-specific content as "Windows only." Everything that is not marked for one platform or the other, appears in the manuals for both platforms. In Structured authoring standards such as DITA, conditional text is implemented through profiling attributes such as audience, platform and product, which allow content to be filtered or flagged at publishing time.
Article summary
Conditional text is content within a document that is meant to appear in some renditions of the document, but not other renditions. For example, a writer can produce Macintosh and Windows versions of the same software manual by marking Macintosh-specific content as "Macintosh only" and Windows-specific content as "Windows only." Everything that is not marked for one platform or the other, appears in the manuals for both platforms. In Structured authoring standards such as DITA, conditional text is implemented through profiling attributes such as audience, platform and product, which allow content to be filtered or flagged at publishing time.
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Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
Bibliography
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Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.