Hi, > To a certain extent I agree with this, but the long and short of it is > that there is a place for both. Ever tried writing a novel in PageMaker > or InDesign?
I'd say do that in an editor and do the layouting in a DTP application afterwards. I bet the functionality of Writer used for writing a novel is what...10%? Probably even less. However, I'd much prefer to see a breakup of that whole concept and an incarnation of a content/design separation joined seemlessly in a smart UI as mentioned before. > It's no more fun doing that than it is to lay out a > magazine in Writer or Word. There is a place for both, and I think that > a DTP application is a logical next step for the OOo project, but not > until the existing components (such as Base) are more or less perfected. > (Most of the components are close, but some--like Base--still have > issues that need to be a priority.) I agree to that. > Honestly, a lot of businesses do have someone in their office do their > website. Yeah, but what do they work with, Frontpage? Or is it rather more often the case that they have a DreamWeaver (or a text editor ;-) ) around? > Should they? Well, that depends. I have seen some very nice > websites done by people in their office using something like Frontpage. > They are few and far between, but they do exist, and if you are a very > small business, you do what you can with what you've got. Only that i wonder if a program like Frontpage really helps that "what you can". But i guess you are right, there surely are some businesses who have a Frontpage created web page. > It depends on your purpose. I mean, Framemaker is essentially a huge > word processor, and it's great for technical projects in which you need > an illustration to stay with your specific chunk of text. In fact, I'd > love to see OOo have all of the capabilities of FM without the really > heady structuring. (How cool would it be to be able to place > illustrations and references to illustrations that all autonumber? Or to > be able to refer to Illustration X on Page Y and have X and Y change > according to where the text flow put the illustration?) See, i think we are actually all thinking in the same direction. And XML seems to be the right media for that. André. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
