Very good reference indeed. IMHO, the main drawback of OOo vs M$Word
is that it tries too much to imitate the latter.

I use OOo a lot, but i find it much harder to work with than
FrameMaker. It seems to default to arbitrary formatting rather than
paragraph and character formatting tags, which it has. Like M$W, OOo
does too much guessing on what you are going to to regarding numbering
etc.

Bodvar


On 2/1/07, Steve Rickaby <srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> At 06:39 -0500 1/2/07, Rebecca.L.Frasure at aphis.usda.gov wrote:
>
> >Someone left on my desk (presumably to irritate the heck out me), an article 
> >from the January STC Magazine Intercom called "Old Software." They 
> >underlined a paragraph which says, "also absent from this discussion is 
> >Adobe Framemaker, which is starting to show its age and lack of recent 
> >development. Fans may want to consider using OpenOffice.org Writer."
>
> Writer appears to be more of a potential replacement for Word than for 
> applications like FrameMaker.
>
> There's a detailed comparison here:
>
> <http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/06/14/2137222.shtml?tid=152&tid=93>
>
> And of course, Writer does not support structure.
>
> As for 'starting to show its age and lack of recent development', followers 
> of this group already know that this is not true.
>
> --
> Steve
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