Word and Frame comparisons

[Lin Sims]

I recall hearing (about 10 years or so ago, things may have changed), that
a lot of Microsoft's documentation was written in FrameMaker, not Word,
because Word couldn't handle what they needed to do. That always amused me.

I wonder if it's still the case ...


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Steve Rickaby <
srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> At 13:41 -0700 25/9/13, Alison Craig wrote:
>
> >"Word isŠ (long pause), Word isŠ (another long pause). Word is for memos."
>
> Ok, I cannot resist rising to this...
>
> Quite a few years ago, I had to prepare some assembly instructions for a
> mineral ore separator. The client mandated Word, probably because it was
> the only document preparation program they had ever heard of.
>
> The version of Word I was using had the interesting property of consigning
> diagrams that overflowed the page into some Byte World in the Sky: that is,
> as added text caused them to flow off the end of the current page, they
> failed to appear on the following page.
>
> I had (gasp) paid support for this version of Word, so I rang Microsoft
> and explained the issue. After a long pause, the M$ support person said -
> and I am not making this up - "It sounds as if you are trying to do
> something that is too complex for Word [yeah, like words and pictures?] -
> have you thought of using FrameMaker?"
>
> --
> Steve [Trim e-mails: use less disk, use less power, use less planet]
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Lin Sims
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