Indispensible FrameMaker features

[Deborah Snavely <dsnavely@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick asked (much snipped):

>Do I stay with Frame to the end, or do I try to provide the best publishing
solutions for
>my clients? I want to do both, but the future is requiring me to start
>looking beyond FrameMaker.

>To start with, I would like to compile a list of indispensible Frame
features. 

Here's some to start with. I tried to compromise by not skipping the stuff I
take for granted (like keyboard navigation and shortcuts), without listing
all the little stuff.

Existing features:
*Real word-processing capabilities including powerful search and replace
*Flexible, powerful page-layout capabilities
*Flexible, powerful, multi-thread autonumbering
*Ability to string multiple files together with pagination control
*Automatically generated lists (TOC, lists, indexes) with automatic
hyperlinks
*Paragraph, character, and table tagging with default and override
capabilities
*Flow-through PDF links
*Multiple master page settings
*Book-wide search and replace
*Ability to import formats across files and books, with or without deleting
overrides


Desired features:
*Anchored frame tags with override capabilities and auto-inserted anchor
paragraph tag
*Auto-inserted anchor paragraph tag for tables
*Parallel table and anchored frame formatting and captioning controls with
ability to update tag/formatting globally, especially with respect to
spreads (two facing pages)
*Ability to link rotated pages to tagged content (tables, anchored frames)
*Easier access to and methods for modifying generated list content control
*Real footnote management including multi-column controls
*Endnotes
*Books of books
*Consistent multi-platform keyboard navigation and shortcuts with mnemonic
support


Deborah Snavely, Senior Technical Writer, Aurigin Systems, Inc.

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