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[Jack Stone <mediwheel_js@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rich,

I've had some success by using the page breaks, and planning my document
out before hand for the likes of table generation and scope capture pasting.
With this said it has worked out rather well, but very time consuming.
But with Frame I had all my templates ready made and the documents imported
data without spewing out temp files etc....  But in some groups Word is the
required doc tool.

jack ~


--- Rich Peyton <p2rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> MS has not improved, that is why I get frustrated trying to create =
> documents
> with MS.  It seems that I always have to check over entire document over
> every time I make additions or deletions because the change could effect =
> the
> layout of the entire document.  I'll look into Framemaker-- but I would
> think there were more choices out there? =20
> 
> Rich P. =20
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:si-list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] =
> On
> Behalf Of Feldman, Richard
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:53 PM
> To: Michael_Poimboeuf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Report Creators
> 
> 
> Too bad you have to use Word for collaborative editing.  A couple of =3D =
> years
> ago, I was working with the INCITS T11 technical committee when we =3D =
> began
> work on a new Fibre Channel standard.  It was decided to abandon =3D =
> Frame and
> use the ubiquitous MS Word this time.  But after 2 or 3 =3D meetings, =
> the
> editors gave up in frustration, and went back to =3D Framemaker.
> 
> IMHO, a noteworthy weakness of Word, and strength of Framemaker, is with =
> =3D
> outline-style (hierarchical) numbering of chapters and sections in large =
> =3D
> documents or books.  When you have to insert, remove, or shuffle =3D =
> sections
> from different sources, Frame seems always to get the numbering =3D =
> right,
> where Word invariably fouls it up beyond all recognition.  Maybe =3D MS =
> has
> improved this recently, but I think it's rooted fundamentally in =3D the
> internal representation of your document's content, organization, =3D =
> 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
> >=3D20
> > 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...
> >=3D20
> > For the last four years or so, I've had to use
> > MS Word for all technical papers published=3D3D20
> > internally or externally. For instance, all of
> > the technical working groups and technical=3D3D20
> > journals I've published in require MS word for
> > collaborative editing.
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