Is there a video demonstrating Word vs Framemaker?

[Daniel Doornbos]

Dear Framers,

The author of "Word 排版藝術" clearly shows what is possible to do in MS Word.
And, having used Word for over 20 years myself, I'm sure he spent a lot of time and effort doing it.

However, not how his overly complex TOC has no hypertext links, because Word's cannot generate them automatically.
You have to add them manually links to your PDF after you generate it, which in turn takes even more time and effort.

For tech docs, the reader needs correct, complete, and concise information he can find quickly.
"Word 排版藝術" not such a document.
And to me, it clearly demonstrates Framemaker's superiority to Word.

Daniel Doornbos
Sr. Technical Communicator
Graphics & Writing
www.graphics-writing.com
daniel at graphics-writing.com

On Sep 23, 2012, at 5:31 PM, Wei JIANG [PT-CN] wrote:

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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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