Buying an old copy of FrameMaker

[David Artman]

> -------- Original Message --------
> From: "Jeremy H. Griffith" <jeremy at omsys.com>
> I did think 8 was an improvement, but the road
> after that turned so sharply downhill it resembled
> falling off a cliff... IMNSHO.  I still use 8;
> we have the later ones for testing with Mif2Go,
> but do not use them for any other purpose.

And THAT is perhaps the most damning assessment I could read, of
post-FM8. Wow...

As much as I love the old darling... I don't think that I'm going to be
using it after the next year or so (barring certain types of clients).
It's got too far to go to even catch up with current, top-notch XML
editor standards; and it doesn't seem to be moving the bar very far for
multiple modern output formats.

(FWIW, that's why I was off-list for almost six years: working long-term
for a client that's on DITA and uses a seriously robust editor.)