First Time Framer!

[Peter Gold]

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.
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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.
>