FrameMaker's very practical typographic aces-in-the-hole - side headings, straddle headings that run across all columns, and across all columns and side heads, and run-in heading paragraphs that "snug up" to subsequent paragraphs - aren't what the "font-fondlers" mean by "sophisticated" typographic abilities, but they are pretty rare among professional publishing products, which gives FrameMaker an important edge in usability and efficiency. ________________ Regards,
Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices Rene Stephenson wrote: > 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. >
