[Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

[Alan Litchfield]

I would add too, that I still think that Adobe should have persisted 
with Frame 5.5 on Linux, and it was an unfortunate mistake to allow the 
stoush with Apple (if that was what it is was) close the door on having 
FM on the Mac.

The examples of user enhancements described, the key commands, 
formatting styles easily accessed with the keyboard, and other useful 
functions are what kept me using FM for two decades. This quote is most 
telling, "customers switching to FrameMaker from Interleaf was how much 
less tedious it felt to use FrameMaker." FM is pretty tedious now. Find 
the pod, click-click-click, find the pallette, click,... :(

What a great read!

Cheers
Alan

--
Dr Alan Litchfield
AlphaByte
PO Box 1941
Auckland, New Zealand 1140

On 20/08/19 06:50, Alan Litchfield wrote:
> Thank you for posting the link. FM is certainly one of the unsung heroes 
> in computing history. Even now, publishing systems are not considered 
> important, until they break.
> 
> If it were not that FM had diverged from the familiar and functional 
> publishing system to a graphic designer tool, I would probably still be 
> using it.
> 
> -- 
> Dr Alan Litchfield
> AlphaByte
> PO Box 1941
> Auckland, New Zealand 1140
> 
> On 19/08/19 22:25, Klaus Daube wrote:
>> Friends of FrameMaker,
>>
>> Today I got a mail from David Hemmendinger (Associate Editor-in-chief, 
>> IEEE Annals of
>> the History of Computing) with two corrections for my web-page about 
>> FM's history.
>>
>> The wonderful surplus of this mail is the link to the full article by 
>> David Murray on
>> the history of FrameMaker. The article
>> (http://walden-family.com/david-murray/frame-posted.pdf) will will 
>> appear in the 2019
>> July-Sept issue of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
>> (http://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an).
>>
>> For the first time we have genuine information about the early days of 
>> FM.
>> Klaus
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Klaus Daube             Phone:  +41-44-381 37 77
>> Schäracher 11           Mail:   klaus at daube.ch
>> CH-8053 Zürich          Web:    www.daube.ch
>>
>>
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