Replacing Framemaker

[Bodvar Bjorgvinsson]

Very good reference indeed. IMHO, the main drawback of OOo vs M$Word
is that it tries too much to imitate the latter.

I use OOo a lot, but i find it much harder to work with than
FrameMaker. It seems to default to arbitrary formatting rather than
paragraph and character formatting tags, which it has. Like M$W, OOo
does too much guessing on what you are going to to regarding numbering
etc.

Bodvar


On 2/1/07, Steve Rickaby <srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> At 06:39 -0500 1/2/07, Rebecca.L.Frasure at aphis.usda.gov wrote:
>
> >Someone left on my desk (presumably to irritate the heck out me), an article from the January STC Magazine Intercom called "Old Software." They underlined a paragraph which says, "also absent from this discussion is Adobe Framemaker, which is starting to show its age and lack of recent development. Fans may want to consider using OpenOffice.org Writer."
>
> Writer appears to be more of a potential replacement for Word than for applications like FrameMaker.
>
> There's a detailed comparison here:
>
> <http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/06/14/2137222.shtml?tid=152&tid=93>
>
> And of course, Writer does not support structure.
>
> As for 'starting to show its age and lack of recent development', followers of this group already know that this is not true.
>
> --
> Steve
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