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Re: Revisiting Frame vs. Word in light of new capabilities
Subject:Re: Revisiting Frame vs. Word in light of new capabilities From:David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:35:30 -0600
Ah...
A seldom-acknowledged truth in using Word as a tech pubs platform is
that it makes it *so* easy for others to screw up the files...too
often originals.
Personally, I don't necessarily view having them in an application
that only the tech writers use to be such a drawback, for I have seen
the other way a few times too many.
However, I still think this case is calling for a transition into
structured docs that can be used by any number of authoring apps...and
reused more flexibly as well.
David
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:58:30 -0800, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> You aren't, not really. The original message said the docs had
> been created in Word and later converted to Frame, and that
> substantial revision and enhancement had been done using a
> number of Frame features like conditional text. ...
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