For the record, I agree with both of you, as well. My only point to Mark was that FM could be overkill for the task described in his original post. Frame and Indy definitely offer all sorts of possibilities as Mark broadens those horizons -- Frame, in particular, from the technical writing side.
________________________________ From: Rene Stephenson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:56 AM To: Steve Rickaby; Mark Lawrence; Pinkham, Jim Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: First Time Framer! I agree with Steve. The time saved of being able to use variables, conditional text, text insets, and custom books built from shared chapters -- all features of FM that Word can't duplicate -- has enabled me to produce quality, custom documents that meet the various needs of our divergent customer base with maximum efficiency. If I have to change some info about a new development in a product, I only have to change it in one place, and the next time I print the 13 documents about that product, the change is consistently present in all 13 documents. At this point, the only thing I use Word for is online forms that we distribute to non-writers. Rene Stephenson Steve Rickaby <srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote: For me, Frame is mission-critical: no more, no less. I don't know about broadening horizons, but if I'd been forced to use Word for everything these past fifteen years, I'd have given up tech authoring long ago. -- Steve _______________________________________________
