Automatic ligatures

[Jeff Coatsworth]

FM9+ changed the way the UI looks and functions to be more mouse-oriented; people who used keyboard shortcuts have had to adapt a bit to the new UI. From a tech writing point of view, bundling the Technical Communication Suite together provides more ways of generating help output via RoboHelp now. FM9 introduced the book of books concept and folders within books; FM10 doesn't do much more with that. The biggest "push" is towards structured authoring (DITA and other schemas) and content management systems (CMS).

If you've got a spare machine, you can download the free trial & play around for 30 days with copies of your docs to see if you like it. You can also run the trial on a an Adobe virtual space online if you don't want to download it.

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.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 
the new provision for language dependent paragraph tags. I do a lot of 
bi- and tri-lingual texts and that feature became instantly useful.

What is there in the basic functionality of FM10 that is so radically 
better than FM8 to justify the expense of an upgrade?

I am not interested in DITA (whatever that is) or in structured books, 
so improvements in these area are not my concern.

As I mentioned, I am not inclined to upgrade the OS, since I must have 
access to DOS for my music typesetting software.

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