Re: Automatic ligatures

2012-03-29 Thread Matanya Ophee
On 28/03/2012 5:05 AM, Fred Ridder wrote: Except that you do seem to need Unicode font support, which *does* require fairly recent OS and application versions. None of the first generation of Unicode implementations was without problems. the unicode issue was an attempt to comply with 19th

RE: Automatic ligatures

2012-03-28 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Ophee Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 1:05 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Automatic ligatures On 26/03/2012 10:04 PM, Jeff Coatsworth wrote: FYI - FM 10 works fine on WinXP SP3 That's already encouraging. The reason I upgraded from FM7 to FM8 was the new provision for language

Re: Automatic ligatures

2012-03-28 Thread Matanya Ophee
On 27/03/2012 8:38 AM, Fred Ridder wrote: Have you ever considered separate hardware for separate tasks? Highly competent Windows systems can be had for less than $500, and that would leave your current system to run an old operating system to run an even older application program. yes, I have

Automatic ligatures

2012-03-28 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
com] On Behalf Of Matanya Ophee Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 1:05 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Automatic ligatures On 26/03/2012 10:04 PM, Jeff Coatsworth wrote: > FYI - FM 10 works fine on WinXP SP3 That's already encouraging. The reason I upgraded from FM7 to FM8 was

Automatic ligatures

2012-03-28 Thread Matanya Ophee
On 27/03/2012 8:38 AM, Fred Ridder wrote: > Have you ever considered separate hardware for separate tasks? Highly > competent Windows systems can be had for less than $500, and that would > leave your current system to run an old operating system to run an even > older application program. yes, I

Automatic ligatures

2012-03-28 Thread Matanya Ophee
On 28/03/2012 5:05 AM, Fred Ridder wrote: > Except that you do seem to need Unicode font support, which *does* > require fairly recent OS and application versions. None of the first > generation of Unicode implementations was without problems. the unicode issue was an attempt to comply with 19th

Re: Automatic ligatures

2012-03-27 Thread Matanya Ophee
On 26/03/2012 9:20 PM, Roger Shuttleworth wrote: Hi Matanya As others have said, FrameMaker on Windows does not do ligatures; that's because they are not included in the Windows character sets. That is only partially true. Indeed the fi and fl ligatures are not part of the main character set

Re: Automatic ligatures

2012-03-27 Thread Matanya Ophee
On 26/03/2012 10:04 PM, Jeff Coatsworth wrote: FYI – FM 10 works fine on WinXP SP3 That's already encouraging. The reason I upgraded from FM7 to FM8 was the new provision for language dependent paragraph tags. I do a lot of bi- and tri-lingual texts and that feature became instantly useful.

RE: Automatic ligatures

2012-03-26 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
FYI - FM 10 works fine on WinXP SP3 From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder Sent: March-24-12 12:04 PM To: m.op...@orphee.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Automatic ligatures You wrote: I am not exactly

RE: Automatic ligatures

2012-03-26 Thread rebecca officer
if you have any issues, Adobe's only response will be to advise you to migrate to Windows 7, since that is the OS version that they support FrameMaker 10 on. Fortunately, my experience of Frame support has been better than that. They provided support for our activation issues and they've

Automatic ligatures

2012-03-26 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
FYI - FM 10 works fine on WinXP SP3 From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder Sent: March-24-12 12:04 PM To: m.ophee at orphee.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Automatic ligatures You wrote: > I

Automatic ligatures

2012-03-26 Thread rebecca officer
> if you have any issues, Adobe's only response will be to advise you to > migrate to Windows 7, since that is the OS version that they support > FrameMaker 10 on. Fortunately, my experience of Frame support has been better than that. They provided support for our activation issues and they've

Automatic ligatures

2012-03-26 Thread Matanya Ophee
On 26/03/2012 9:20 PM, Roger Shuttleworth wrote: > Hi Matanya > > As others have said, FrameMaker on Windows does not do ligatures; that's > because they are not included in the Windows character sets. That is only partially true. Indeed the fi and fl ligatures are not part of the main character

Automatic ligatures

2012-03-26 Thread Matanya Ophee
On 26/03/2012 10:04 PM, Jeff Coatsworth wrote: > FYI ? FM 10 works fine on WinXP SP3 That's already encouraging. The reason I upgraded from FM7 to FM8 was the new provision for language dependent paragraph tags. I do a lot of bi- and tri-lingual texts and that feature became instantly useful.

Re: Automatic ligatures

2012-03-25 Thread Matanya Ophee
On 24/03/2012 12:03 AM, Fred Ridder wrote: 2. Is version 8 compatible with Windows XP? Since you say that you are currently using FrameMaker 8 with Windows XP, I assume that you meant to ask whether FrameMaker *10* is compatible with Windows XP. Correct. I mistyped. The answer to *that8

Re: Automatic ligatures

2012-03-24 Thread Mike Wickham
So the questions are these: 1. Does version 10 do automatic ligatures? No. 2. Is version 8 compatible with Windows XP? Yes Mike Wickham ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages

RE: Automatic ligatures

2012-03-24 Thread Fred Ridder
You wrote: I am not exactly a newbie, been using FrameMaker since version 4. I am currently on version 8. The program, working in a Windows XP environment, does everything I need it to do, So the questions are these: 2. Is version 8 compatible with Windows XP? Since you say

Automatic ligatures

2012-03-24 Thread Mike Wickham
> So the questions are these: > > 1. Does version 10 do automatic ligatures? > No. > 2. Is version 8 compatible with Windows XP? > > Yes Mike Wickham

Automatic ligatures

2012-03-24 Thread Fred Ridder
You wrote: > I am not exactly a newbie, been using FrameMaker since version 4. I am > currently on version 8. > > The program, working in a Windows XP environment, does everything I need > it to do, > So the questions are these: > > 2. Is version 8 compatible with Windows XP? Since you

Automatic ligatures

2012-03-24 Thread Matanya Ophee
On 24/03/2012 12:03 AM, Fred Ridder wrote: > > 2. Is version 8 compatible with Windows XP? > Since you say that you are currently using FrameMaker 8 with Windows XP, > I assume that you meant to ask whether FrameMaker *10* is compatible > with Windows XP. Correct. I mistyped. > The answer to

Automatic ligatures

2012-03-23 Thread Matanya Ophee
to all, I am not exactly a newbie, been using FrameMaker since version 4. I am currently on version 8. The program, working in a Windows XP environment, does everything I need it to do, with the exception of one irritation: It does not do automatic ligatures the way QuarkExpress and InDesign