atw: Re: Product of choice
- From: "Steve Byrne" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 21:44:47 +1000
Given a free choice, I cannot understand why a technical writer would choose
anything else but WordPerfect.
Compared with Microsoft Word, WordPerfect has many advantages:
* A stable product that doesn't fall over.
* No limit to the size of documents.
* The master documents feature works perfectly.
* Much more control over graphics.
* A much more advanced tables feature.
* Much more powerful styles.
* Paragraph numbering works.
WordPerfect has had features for 15 or 20 years that Word still has not
caught up with.
(Word might be better with templates).
Compared with FrameMaker, WordPerfect has some advantages:
* Much better with graphics.
* Easier to learn and use.
Steve Byrne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christine Birtley-Kent" <christine.bk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 9:39 AM
Subject: atw: Product of choice
> Guys, if you had total freedom of choice as to what products to use for a
> suite of printed/on-line computer software manuals, what products would
> you
> use?
>
>
> I know I do a lot of whining about the products I am forced to use, and
> until now, I have not even considered what I would use given a free hand.
> The contract before last I was using Framemaker, and found it very slow
> and
> cumbersome, but reliable. Then I went back to Word which is fast and
> efficient, but forced me to get back into the mentality of chasing
> corruptions (features) around to try to get large documents as stable as
> possible. The current manuals I am working on are in PageMaker - but I am
> being given a free hand from here. What experience have others had with
> alternative technologies and are they worth the time taken to set them up?
>
>
>
> So what would we use in a perfect world?
>
>
>
> Christine
>
>
>
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