why is FM's UI so weird and buggy?

Austin Meredith kouroo at kouroo.info
Thu Mar 7 01:55:33 PST 2013


> The kind of UI thing that bugs me is this: You have two documents tiled on the
> screen. You are in the left side document with your cursor in a paragraph that
> you want to retag. You slide your mouse over to the docked paragraph catalog
> (which is open on the right side of the screen) and click on a paragraph tag
> to apply it. Instead of applying it in the left hand document, you new tag is
> applied in the right hand document. Maddening!

I have had to learn that to get my cursor over to the dock at the right, I must
first take the cursor up or down into the margin so as the cursor moves to the
right it *never passes across* the right hand document. (Every once in awhile I
forget and then DAMN, FrameMaker did it to me yet again!)
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