Converting Rows to Headers

[Fred Ridder]

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.
As to plug-ins, I think the FrameMaker model of providing robust, predictable core functionality and leaving specialized to plug-ins is vastly preferable to the Microsoft philosophy of building every conceivable feature into the application itself. In addition to forcing all users to work around featurees they don't need and will never use, it generally seems to lead to slower performance and much lower stability.  It should also be noted that Adobe embraces the third-party plug-in model for several of their products, including their premier Photoshop and InDesign products.

I have been a power user of something like 15 different versions of Microsoft Word on Macintosh, DOS, and Windows platforms over they years, and I currently use both Word (2007) and FrameMaker on a daily basis, and the decision of which one to take with me to the proverbial desert island would take me about a millisecond. 
-Fred Ridder

> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:21:27 -0500
> From: generic668 at yahoo.ca
> To: yves.barbion at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: Converting Rows to Headers
> CC: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> 
> *shrug*
> 
> Different users have different needs, and FM tables don't meet mine.
> 
> As to the OP's op, we shouldn't have to have a multitude of plug-ins for 
> FM. It should work the way it should work.
> 
> Nadine