On Friday 06 September 2013 10:47:49 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 20:18:34 -0700 > > Bruce Byfield <[email protected]> dijo: > >For now, I'll just say that Writer is not a word processor so much as > >an intermediate desktop publishing program. You can actually > >substitute it very successfully for proprietary tools like FrameMaker. > > That is correct, but bear in mind that FrameMaker, like Writer or TeX, > is not a page layout application like Scribus, InDesign, QuarkXPress or > PageMaker, inter alia.
FrameMaker is (or used to be) an industry-standard for producing printed material, such as technical manuals. It's a specialized tool, designed to produce text-oriented documents. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
