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["Feldman, Richard" <rfeldman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Too bad you have to use Word for collaborative editing.  A couple of =
years ago, I was working with the INCITS T11 technical committee when we =
began work on a new Fibre Channel standard.  It was decided to abandon =
Frame and use the ubiquitous MS Word this time.  But after 2 or 3 =
meetings, the editors gave up in frustration, and went back to =
Framemaker.

IMHO, a noteworthy weakness of Word, and strength of Framemaker, is with =
outline-style (hierarchical) numbering of chapters and sections in large =
documents or books.  When you have to insert, remove, or shuffle =
sections from different sources, Frame seems always to get the numbering =
right, where Word invariably fouls it up beyond all recognition.  Maybe =
MS has improved this recently, but I think it's rooted fundamentally in =
the internal representation of your document's content, organization, =
and style.  Frame endures because its creators "got it" from the outset.

Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Poimboeuf [mailto:Michael_Poimboeuf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 11:33 AM
> To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Report Creators
>=20
> I used Framemaker for ten years on SGI, Sun and MacOS.
> It was my favorite technical writing package.
> Unix was my favorite OS...
> Ah well, time moves on...
>=20
> For the last four years or so, I've had to use
> MS Word for all technical papers published=3D20
> internally or externally. For instance, all of
> the technical working groups and technical=3D20
> journals I've published in require MS word for
> collaborative editing.
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