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Subject:Re: He's doing it again...duck! From:Joe Fockler <jfockler -at- IPHASE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 21 Dec 1993 07:21:50 -0600
GREAT IDEA Jack! I use FrameMaker and would love see some
positive dialog on this subject.
I love your mail footer about your uncle Ralph.
Joe Fockler
jfockler -at- iphase -dot- com
According to JACK P. SHAW : +
+ I'm going to ask. I don't care. I just am...
+ We all work with various DTP things, I take it--from
+ mainframe composition to stone tablets and charcoal--right?
+ I sometimes have the feeling (to wit: latest Interleaf vs.
+ Framemaker indexing tools exchange) we "talk" around/over/through
+ each other sometimes. I mean, some savvy folks have an
+ exchange, and others watch like at a ping-pong tournament
+ (no? think of your eyeballs sometime, reading this stuff...)
+ Would there be a worthwhile purpose (lord, I started this same
+ way a couple of months back, and look what happened...) to
+ present/discuss/commisserate on a product (hard/software) or
+ other means of doing what we do? For example: this week and
+ next (or whenever)--Word and whatever it takes to make a book/
+ online help/etc. Issues like compatibility, ease of use, cost &
+ "ROI"--and like that...
+ I ask because we are all more or less in the position to
+ determine what tools we have at our disposal (I sure wish I
+ could dispose of ... after using the %$ -at- *& idiot spelling
+ checker, boy). Would it add to our general acumen to banter
+ these things about? Or is this old stuff...
+ Jack Shaw/jsh -at- software-ag -dot- de
+ Software AG
+ Darmstadt, Germany