I was *not* attempting to get into a pissing contest with you. I am genuinely curious what tool you have found to be superior at handling tables and why. An opinion without supporting evidence or experience is not informative. I was hoping (perhaps naively...) that this thread could be turned into a discussion that would actually be useful to the members of the list. Who knows, if you bothered to tell the list what you see as FrameMaker's shortcomings you might lear than it is not as inadequate for your needs as you think. This list has some very savvy and inventive users who have come up with some very clever solutions to unusaul requirements. -Fred Ridder
> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:41:07 -0800 > From: generic668 at yahoo.ca > Subject: RE: Converting Rows to Headers > To: yves.barbion at gmail.com; docudoc at hotmail.com > CC: framers at lists.frameusers.com > > Folks, I have no intention of getting into a pissing match with you all. If > you feel that FM tables works well for you and meets your needs, excellent. > If you have the budget to buy a plethora of plug-ins, also excellent. > > I don't know anything about your processes, procedures, needs, or budgets. I > feel no compunction to tell you that your perceptions are wrong or to take > you to task publicly and make you justify your perceptions. > > Conversely, you don't know my processes, procedures, needs, and budget > either. All I'm saying is that in my experience, I have not found the table > feature in FM robust enough for me. > > You're allowed to disagree with me. I'm okay with that. Different opinions > are a good thing in a forum because that's what a forum is for. However, your > opinion is an opinion, and not THE answer. My opinion isn't THE answer > either...it's just my opinion. > > Nadine > > --- On Fri, 2/12/10, Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com> wrote: > > > From: Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com> > > Subject: RE: Converting Rows to Headers > > To: generic668 at yahoo.ca, "Yves Barbion" <yves.barbion at gmail.com> > > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com > > Date: Friday, February 12, 2010, 8:57 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > So what tool(s) do you think does a better job with tables > > than FrameMaker? I've used a lot of different tools over > > the years, and I find the FrameMaker implementation to be > > the best one I've worked with, and one of the few that > > actually handles a table as a self-contained object and not > > just a bunch of paragraphs with boxes around them.
