I think FrameMaker's docs are the least bad of all the authoring tools I've used or evaluated.
Their biggest weakness is often complete lack of coverage of higher-level tasks. E.g. there are no templates in the usual sense, so how do you work around that? The sample files they've provided not only don't embody best practices, they were apparently created by people who didn't understand many of the (properly documented) fundamentals. On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Sharp, Amy <amy.sh...@conocophillips.com> wrote: >> My personal feeling is that documentation from Adobe has declined, and is >> threatening to approach the Microsoft level. > > I think Microsoft has a leg up on Adobe docs, albeit a skinny leg. Even > before Adobe bought the company, FM docs were, shall we say, less than > robust. They remind me of open-source philosophy where developers wait for a > user to document that an icon means means "crash and burn," not "save this > file." > > If not for Sarah O'Keefe and Scriptorium, FrameMaker would have been > abandoned a decade ago. Just saying. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
