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To: John Posada <jposada01@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: FYI: framemaker-feedback traffic to date
From: Carolyn Stallard <cstallard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:20:31 -0700
CC: Lee Richardson <lhr@xxxxxxxxx>, Framers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Free Framers <framers@xxxxxxxxx>
Organization: Crone Consulting
References: <19990730193141.19440.rocketmail@web801.mail.yahoo.com>
Sender: owner-framers@xxxxxxxxx
In the [bad?] old mainframe days (and maybe it still happens) new software releases would be accompanied by a painstaking list of all the known defects. Embarrassment wasn't an issue; customers with penalty-clause contracts who were paying megabucks wanted to know exactly where the potholes lay. On the other hand, some years later I recall rejecting Interleaf (our first choice because of its underlying design and extendability), in favor of FrameMaker, when the former arrived with a 74-page defect report. Still, I'd rather know about the potholes! FrameMaker has no real competition that I know about (sorry, Interleaf) for producing large manuals, so the litany isn't likely to to turn me away. -- "The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place" --G. B. Shaw CRONE CONSULTING - Technical Writing / Editing / Design / QA Carolyn Stallard - cstallard@contractor.net / Phone: 831-475-0466 ** To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@omsys.com ** ** with "unsubscribe framers" (no quotes) in the body. **