Fwd: Re: Is there a video demonstrating Word vs Framemaker?

[Wei JIANG [PT-CN]]

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Subject: 	Re: Is there a video demonstrating Word vs Framemaker?
Date: 	Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:29:06 +0800
From: 	Wei JIANG [PT-CN] <jiangw at polytrans.com.cn>
To: 	Carol J. Elkins <celkins at awrittenword.com>



Dear Framers,

Many years ago, a programmer and lecturer from Taiwan authored a book -
The Art of Word – Write and Typeset Large Scale Documents - on how to
typeset in Word in an artist's way. That book - around 400 pages -
explains nearly every aspect of Word that the author found useful while
typesetting his own books. Here is a link to a PDF file which contains 2
sample chapters from that book:
http://jjhou.boolan.com/lsword-20040516-2chaps.pdf . Even if you do not
read Chinese, I guess you can still feel the "professionalism".

Kindest,
Wei Jiang
English<>Chinese Translator and Multilingual DTPer based in Beijing, China

On 9/24/2012 3:35 AM, Carol J. Elkins wrote:
> I think there is so much more to say about a Frame vs Word comparison
> in a video than stability, single-sourcing, and conditional text. I am
> not an advanced Word user, so it is likely that I simply do not know
> how to force Word to do some of the things that Framemaker does so
> simply, but off the top of my head, managing files at the book level;
> cross-references that remain live when converted to PDF; automatic
> index generation; etc. A quick google for Framemaker versus Word will
> bring up a lengthy laundry list of features that could be demonstrated
> side by side in a video. Granted, in most instances, the Word side
> would simply be sitting there looking dumb while the Frame side zipped
> along making our lives easier.
>
> In addition, Scriptorium Publishing outlines a great Frame vs Word
> demo at http://www.techknowledgecorp.com/demo.html
>
> I don't have any video experience, but if I did, I'd make this video
> in a heartbeat because I think it would be a well-viewed, valuable
> resource for Framers. I know Adobe can't do it for legal reasons, but
> it would be great if one of us who DOES have video experience could
> build it.
>
> Carol
>
> At 10:28 AM 9/23/2012, you wrote:
>> I agree that it's a bad idea to show both of them in a video. The
>> main advantages of Unstructured FrameMaker (as I see it) are
>> stability and single-sourcing.
>
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