[Framers] Nostalgia - was Re: FrameMaker 2015

[Lin Sims]

Word still pretty much sucks. It's more stable than it used to be, but
things like numbering still require very strictly controlled styles or some
facility with VB. I've encountered people who can get it to do a lot of
what Frame does, but, again, they use a lot of VB macros to do what Frame
does out of the box. No thanks!

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 8:42 AM Jerilynne Knight <jerilynne.knight at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What a great history of FM...I started out on Ventura Publisher, while
> working for Xerox, who had purchased the software and didn't know squiddly
> squat about it so, as someone who had gone NUTZ trying to find some way to
> do process doc and software manuals without going postal, I set out to
> learn it, then demoed, then moved to FrameMaker in about '92 as I recall.
> Oh, and I agree with Word for DOS...I fought, kicking and screaming, when
> the Windows versions came out. Still do in point of fact!
>
> J
> 317.593.5551
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 3:49 AM Frank Stearns <franks at pacifier.com> wrote:
>
> > In 1990 or so I'd just completed migrating some 6000 pages of DEC RNO
> > (with pieces of UNIX Troff tossed in) over to LaTeX for my primary
> > client of the day (Aptec Systems, a Floating Point Systems spin-off
> > who made high-speed I/O computers. We're talking large fractions of a
> > million dollars systems (multi-millions for the "big" systems) whose
> > then fantastic bus speeds are today dwarfed by that $500 laptop at
> > Best Buy or Walmart.)
> >
> >
> >
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Lin Sims