RE: FrameMaker 2005 Chautauqua -- November 7-9, Raleigh NC USA

["David Schor" <Davids@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I also don't understand the complaints - perhaps they arise because FM
doesn't have drag-and-drop or AutoCorrect like Word, which are neat
bells and whistles.
Just last week, a TC at another company told me that her boss didn't
agree to let her purchase FM. One of the main reasons was that he was
afraid of FM's learning curve.
What "learning curve"? What "odd GUI?" These have to rank among the
biggest myths in Technical Communication. I first worked with FM about
12 years ago (it had a tutorial bundled in the application then) but was
up and running in a day.
Whenever someone complains that they are concerned about "learning
curve" and "weird GUI" (as if MS-DOS and UNIX were amazingly intuitive),
I reply that we TCs earn our living by learning products and
applications all the time in order to document them - why should
learning FM be any more intimidating?

David Schor
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-framers@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-framers@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Martha J Davidson
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 10:07 PM
To: framers@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: FrameMaker 2005 Chautauqua -- November 7-9, Raleigh NC USA



>It still has one of the most odd UI of any of the major applications I
use 
>on a daily basis

You know, I've been hearing people say this for years, and I still don't

know what they mean. Maybe it's because I've been a Frame user since 
version 1.11b, in early 1986; I don't know. I use lots of other 
applications and I am really curious what people mean when they say that

the Frame UI is "odd," or outdated.

Any takers?

martha, genuinely curious
--
Martha Jane {Kolman | Davidson}
Dances With Words
editrix@xxxxxxxxxxx

"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
      --Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5 (translated by Sheets/Tovey)



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